API Design Special Newsletter

API Design Special Newsletter

Latest Content, Top Viewed Content, News, Top Articles, Top Presentations & Interviews In this special newsletter we bring you up to date on all the new content and news related to API on InfoQ. We are also maintaining a portal page for all this content on InfoQ at: http://www.infoq.com/api/. Latest Content on InfoQ #1 InfoQ eMag: Web APIs: From Start to Finish (eMag, Jan 19, 2015) #2 RESTier: A New Framework for Building OData Services (news, Jan 09, 2015) #3 Atom API 1.0 is Stable (news, Jan 16, 2015) #4 Powerstrip: A Tool for Prototyping Docker Extensions (news, Feb 03, 2015) #5 MuleSoft Announces ESB 3.6 and Anypoint Platform for Mobile (news, Jan 30, 2015) Top Viewed Content on InfoQ #1 A Web API Design Methodology (article, Dec 07, 2014) #2 Article Series: Web APIs: From Start to Finish (article, Nov 18, 2014) #3 Roy Fielding on Versioning, Hypermedia, and REST (article, Dec 17, 2014) #4 Why Some Web APIs Are Not RESTful and What Can Be Done About It(article, Oct 26, 2014) #3 REST-y Reader (article, Dec 24, 2014) Top News Android 5.0 Brings Over 5,000 New APIs Android 5.0 (Lollipop) comes with a large number of new APIs, over 5,000 of them, according to Ankur Kotwal, a Google developer advocate. These cover many areas of mobile development from the new Material Design, to enhanced battery management, to managing devices to ART. We are presenting some of the most important. Restlet 2.3 Released, Featuring Java 7, SPDY and CORS Support Restlet has released version 2.3 of its Restlet Framework. This release is largely an effort to update the project's dependencies and to improve its API documentation and management. Restlet has been developing a comprehensive API platform with Restlet Studio (a web IDE for building APIs), APISpark (a PaaS for building API's), as well as Restlet Framework (its open source offering.) Restlet Launches APISpark, PaaS for Web APIs Restlet, creators of the most widely deployed framework for APIs, today announced the general availability of APISpark, a cloud service for developers seeking to quickly publish and manage APIs, and businesses that want to give application and website developers around the world access to their data. New Google APIs Client Libraries for Dart Dart Engineer Søren Gjesse, has this week announced to the community new packages for accessing Google APIs. Gjesse says the API generator has been built to create Dart client libraries enabling access to Google services, including YouTube, Analytics, Google+, and Drive from Dart. However, not everyone in the Dart community is on board with the one package approach. Apiary Announces Apiary for Enterprise Apiary, the company behind API Blueprints has announced a new offering, Apiary for Enterprise, that promotes API design best practices through tooling that validates API designs against defined API style guide standards and best practices. InfoQ caught up with Apiary to shed more light on this new offering. Top Articles Sam Newman: Practical Implications of Microservices in 14 Tips What are the practical concerns associated with running microservice systems? And what you need to know to embrace the power of smaller services without making things too hard? A Business Perspective on APIs This article, the first of a new series, examines APIs from a business perspective. It covers the importance of tying your APIs back to your business value, with examples from Amazon and Twilio. Implementing Hypermedia In this article, we'll talk about four different real-world implementations of hypermedia starting with how you may already be using hypermedia through image links. An Interview with HAL Creator Mike Kelly As part of our ongoing series on Web APIs Mike Amundsen talks to Mike Kelly about his reasons for creating HAL and his experiences over the last three years with web developers and the API community. Review: Designing APIs for the Web Mike Amundsen's series "Designing APIs for the Web" is a straightforward dive into API design suitable for a broad set of stakeholders. This article reviews the series so you know what to expect. Top Presentations & Interviews Al Tsang on Using JavaScript to Build Web APIs and the Node.js Fork Al Tsang talks about using Node.js to build Web APIs, the emergence of an API economy, the convergence between an API Gateway and an ESB, and Node Forward Group's decision to fork Node. Jerome Louvel on Web APIs with Restlet and APISpark Jerome Louvel talks to Charles Humble about Web APIs, the Restlet framework and his latest venture APISpark. Reactive APIs in Spray, Akka and Scala Jan Machacek demos creating and using reactive APIs in Scala with Spray and Akka. Distributed Systems and the End of the API Chas Emerick discusses some of the common issues appearing in distributed systems and ways to solve them. SpiderMonkey Parser API: A Standard For Structured JS Representations Michael Ficarra discusses the SpiderMonkey Parser API, evaluating its design and flaws, and showcasing some of the more useful and prominent projects that have adopted it.