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PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE OF
APIS OF MOBILE AND WEB APPS
Ole Lensmar – CTO – SmartBear Software
Once upon a time…
We tried to connect (early 90:ies)
 Multiple protocols / initiatives
– DCE/RPC (OSF)
– CORBA (OMG)
– COM / DCOM (Microsoft)
– J2EE / RMI (Sun)
 They all had their challenges
– Proprietary, Complex, Limited, etc.
Then - the Internet came along…
 HTTP
– lightweight “universal” text-based protocol
 XML
– “lightweight” text markup syntax
 “POX” – plain old XML
 HTTP+XML became XML-RPC
 SOAP (Microsoft)
– “Simple Object Access Protocol”
– XML-based messaging protocol – transport independent
REST arrives – and SOAP evolves
 REST was introduced by Roy T. Fielding
– “Architectural Styles and the Design of Network-based
Software Architectures” (2000)
 SOAP 1.1
– WSDL, XML-Schema
– W3C recommendation in 2003
 WS-I Basic Profile (2004)
– Guidelines on how to implement SOAP related-standards
– Doc/Literal replaces RPC
– Top-down vs Bottom up design
… and Web APIs emerge
 Salesforce launches XML API (2000)
– “Salesforce Automation”
 eBay launches their API (2000)
– Initially limited to select partners/developers
 Social
– Del.icio.us (2003)
– Flickr (2004)
– Facebook, Twitter, Google Maps, etc (2006)
 All APIs were central to the reach and success of their
providers
Web Applications evolve
 Web 2.0 Technology Stack
– AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML)
– HTML5 / CSS
– JSON
 Web starts turning into a platform
– ProgrammableWeb launches 2005
– API Management (Mashery)
– Still mainly XML
At the same time - SOAP gets “enterprisy”
 QoS specifications – WS-*
– WS-Addressing
– WS-Security
– WS-Reliable Messaging
– etc
 SOA Architectures become “mainstream”
 Limited use of SOAP for public APIs
– Difficult to consume from Web 2.0 stack
The client landscape continued to change
 Mobile takes the lead with native/hybrid/web
applications
– Mostly API-driven
 Single Page Applications (SPA)
– HTML5
– Dynamic UI that pulls all data from backend via APIs
 Device proliferation
– Android, iOS, Windows Phone, TVs, Consoles, etc..
– APIs enable adoption to new devices
APIs fuel cloud and infrastructure
 Amazon
– S3 – cloud based storage (2006)
– EC2 - re-sizable compute capacity (2006)
– Both REST APIs that lacked web interfaces for
several years!
 Twilio – voice and messaging (2007)
-> APIs enable a “building-block” approach to
applications and architectures
APIs at the heart of applications
API
Web / SPA
Mobile
Devices
Integrations
Storage
API
eCommerce
APIMessaging
API
Compute
API
Logic
And APIs just continue to grow…
 SOA architectures are moving to REST from SOAP
 API Directories
– programmableweb.com
– apihub.com
– publicapis.com
 apicommons.org
– Collection of shared API definitions
 QoS
– OAuth, OpenID Connect, Tokens, etc.
From an architectural
point of view…
20 years ago
ACME Corp
(does monolithics)
10 years ago
ACME Corp
(does SOA)
Web
app
Corp
SOA
P
MQ
API
RMI
And now… Corp
Corp
ACME Corp
(does APIs)
Web
app
Corp
App
+ API
API
API
API
Devi
ce
APP
API
Devi
ce
IoT
Devi
ce
IoT
Devi
ce
API
API
API Oriented Architecture
 Key ingredients in a distributed application
architecture can be consumed / provided via APIs
– Storage
– Messaging
– eCommerce
– Virtualization
– Compute / Provisioning
– Etc..
 Focus on core business
Let’s back up a little…
What is REST?
 REST is an architectural style – not a technology!
 Resources are identified with URIs
– /users/12343/address
– /cities/boston/hotels?area=downtown
 HTTP Verbs are used for actions
– GET – retrieve resource representation(s)
– POST – create resource(s) at URI (not idempotent)
– PUT – replace resources identified by URI (idempotent)
– DELETE – delete specified resource(s)
– PATCH – update specified resource
 Representations and Content-types control semantics
Hypermedia APIs
 HATEOAS – Hypermedia As The Engine Of Application State
 Embed links to applicable actions in REST responses – clients
shouldn’t need to know in advance what can be done next
 Pros
– Designed for scale
– Change and Context tolerant
– Allows “discovery” of APIs
 Cons
– Hypermedia is a “human” concept - client logic can get complex
– Requires aggressive caching for performance
REST Maturity Model
Hypermedia Example
Hypermedia Example
Hypermedia API Example
REST API Descriptions
 API metadata can be used for
– documentation,
– validation + testing
– code-generation
 Swagger - code oriented (bottom-up)
– large community + great tools for code generation
 RAML, API-Blueprint - design-oriented (top-down)
– great authoring tools
 WADL - inspired by WSDL – never caught on
Swagger Example
Swagger UI
Looking ahead – REST faces
some challenges…
Experience APIs
 Model APIs after user experience – not resources
 NetFlix
– 800+ devices / homescreens
– Each homescreen made multiple REST calls – doesn’t
scale
– Solution – build one API call for each device;
• /api/homescreen/ps4
 Orchestrate / Aggregate needed internal APIs on
the server
Binary Protocols
 Several CORBA-like alternative
– Thrift (Facebook)
– Protobuf (Google)
– Avro (Apache/Hadoop)
 All have an IDL with language bindings
 Problems solved:
– Performance (processing and bandwidth)
– Type-safety / interop
– Improved QoS built in the protocol
Async / Real-Time APIs…
 API-driven applications often poll for data updates
– Imposes bandwidth + performance overhead
– Insufficient for “real” real-time needs
 Real-Time APIs push data to clients when needed
 WebSockets (W3C)
– Supported in all major browsers
– Full-duplex communication over a single TCP connection
 Webhooks
– User-defined HTTP callbacks
– Supports REST concepts
SDKs vs APIs…
 SDKs greatly ease adoption
– No need to learn / implement underlying protocol
– Native language bindings natural for developers
– API provider has flexibility to change
 SDKs pose great challenges too
– Dependencies
– Versioning
– Support
And of course - the Internet of Things
 IoT devices have limited power and bandwidth
– low complexity and footprint for APIs
– publish/subscribe instead of request/response
– minimized on-the-wire formats
– automatic (re)connection management
 A number of real-time protocols in use
– MQTT, CoAP, AMQP, STOMP, etc
 IoT Brokers connect and integrate multiple devices
So if you’re building APIs,
what should be keeping you
up at night?
API Hierarchy of Needs
Who is going to use your API?
User Experience
=
Developer Experience
Align with your users technology
 SOAP / REST / Corba / etc…
 XML / JSON / YAML / etc…
 Honor QoS and Security
Help users understand your API
vs
Help users consume your API
 Code samples in common languages
 Native SDKs
 Provide sandbox environments
 Automated & instant API access for evaluation
Provide API Metadata
 Validation
 Code Generation
 Coverage
 Understanding
 Simulation
wsdl, swagger,
wadl, hal, json
schema, apiary.io,
xml schema, ws-*,
apiary, api-docs,
raml, iodocs, etc
Align with your users domain
 Process / Workflow
 Nomenclature
 Related APIs
A 3:30:3 Litmus test for APIs
 3 Minutes to understand what an API does
 30 seconds to sign up
 3 minutes to the first request
(Ori Pekelman)
Recommendations…
API First
 APIs are at the heart of
– Mobile Strategies
– Web Strategies
– Partner / Integration Strategies
– Developer / Community Strategies
– Cloud / Infrastructure Strategies
 APIs should be treated as a first-level citizen -
not as an after sight
Technology & Implementation
 Avoid (REST) religion
 Choose what’s best for you and your users
 Understand the importance of DX – both
internally and externally
 Use your public APIs internally!
And please…
Love your APIs – and they’ll love you back!
Thanks!
 @olensmar
 ole.lensmar@smartbear.com

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Past, Present and Future of APIs of Mobile and Web Apps

  • 1. PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE OF APIS OF MOBILE AND WEB APPS Ole Lensmar – CTO – SmartBear Software
  • 2. Once upon a time…
  • 3. We tried to connect (early 90:ies)  Multiple protocols / initiatives – DCE/RPC (OSF) – CORBA (OMG) – COM / DCOM (Microsoft) – J2EE / RMI (Sun)  They all had their challenges – Proprietary, Complex, Limited, etc.
  • 4. Then - the Internet came along…  HTTP – lightweight “universal” text-based protocol  XML – “lightweight” text markup syntax  “POX” – plain old XML  HTTP+XML became XML-RPC  SOAP (Microsoft) – “Simple Object Access Protocol” – XML-based messaging protocol – transport independent
  • 5. REST arrives – and SOAP evolves  REST was introduced by Roy T. Fielding – “Architectural Styles and the Design of Network-based Software Architectures” (2000)  SOAP 1.1 – WSDL, XML-Schema – W3C recommendation in 2003  WS-I Basic Profile (2004) – Guidelines on how to implement SOAP related-standards – Doc/Literal replaces RPC – Top-down vs Bottom up design
  • 6. … and Web APIs emerge  Salesforce launches XML API (2000) – “Salesforce Automation”  eBay launches their API (2000) – Initially limited to select partners/developers  Social – Del.icio.us (2003) – Flickr (2004) – Facebook, Twitter, Google Maps, etc (2006)  All APIs were central to the reach and success of their providers
  • 7. Web Applications evolve  Web 2.0 Technology Stack – AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) – HTML5 / CSS – JSON  Web starts turning into a platform – ProgrammableWeb launches 2005 – API Management (Mashery) – Still mainly XML
  • 8. At the same time - SOAP gets “enterprisy”  QoS specifications – WS-* – WS-Addressing – WS-Security – WS-Reliable Messaging – etc  SOA Architectures become “mainstream”  Limited use of SOAP for public APIs – Difficult to consume from Web 2.0 stack
  • 9. The client landscape continued to change  Mobile takes the lead with native/hybrid/web applications – Mostly API-driven  Single Page Applications (SPA) – HTML5 – Dynamic UI that pulls all data from backend via APIs  Device proliferation – Android, iOS, Windows Phone, TVs, Consoles, etc.. – APIs enable adoption to new devices
  • 10. APIs fuel cloud and infrastructure  Amazon – S3 – cloud based storage (2006) – EC2 - re-sizable compute capacity (2006) – Both REST APIs that lacked web interfaces for several years!  Twilio – voice and messaging (2007) -> APIs enable a “building-block” approach to applications and architectures
  • 11. APIs at the heart of applications API Web / SPA Mobile Devices Integrations Storage API eCommerce APIMessaging API Compute API Logic
  • 12. And APIs just continue to grow…  SOA architectures are moving to REST from SOAP  API Directories – programmableweb.com – apihub.com – publicapis.com  apicommons.org – Collection of shared API definitions  QoS – OAuth, OpenID Connect, Tokens, etc.
  • 14. 20 years ago ACME Corp (does monolithics)
  • 15. 10 years ago ACME Corp (does SOA) Web app Corp SOA P MQ API RMI
  • 16. And now… Corp Corp ACME Corp (does APIs) Web app Corp App + API API API API Devi ce APP API Devi ce IoT Devi ce IoT Devi ce API API
  • 17. API Oriented Architecture  Key ingredients in a distributed application architecture can be consumed / provided via APIs – Storage – Messaging – eCommerce – Virtualization – Compute / Provisioning – Etc..  Focus on core business
  • 18. Let’s back up a little…
  • 19. What is REST?  REST is an architectural style – not a technology!  Resources are identified with URIs – /users/12343/address – /cities/boston/hotels?area=downtown  HTTP Verbs are used for actions – GET – retrieve resource representation(s) – POST – create resource(s) at URI (not idempotent) – PUT – replace resources identified by URI (idempotent) – DELETE – delete specified resource(s) – PATCH – update specified resource  Representations and Content-types control semantics
  • 20. Hypermedia APIs  HATEOAS – Hypermedia As The Engine Of Application State  Embed links to applicable actions in REST responses – clients shouldn’t need to know in advance what can be done next  Pros – Designed for scale – Change and Context tolerant – Allows “discovery” of APIs  Cons – Hypermedia is a “human” concept - client logic can get complex – Requires aggressive caching for performance
  • 25. REST API Descriptions  API metadata can be used for – documentation, – validation + testing – code-generation  Swagger - code oriented (bottom-up) – large community + great tools for code generation  RAML, API-Blueprint - design-oriented (top-down) – great authoring tools  WADL - inspired by WSDL – never caught on
  • 28. Looking ahead – REST faces some challenges…
  • 29. Experience APIs  Model APIs after user experience – not resources  NetFlix – 800+ devices / homescreens – Each homescreen made multiple REST calls – doesn’t scale – Solution – build one API call for each device; • /api/homescreen/ps4  Orchestrate / Aggregate needed internal APIs on the server
  • 30. Binary Protocols  Several CORBA-like alternative – Thrift (Facebook) – Protobuf (Google) – Avro (Apache/Hadoop)  All have an IDL with language bindings  Problems solved: – Performance (processing and bandwidth) – Type-safety / interop – Improved QoS built in the protocol
  • 31. Async / Real-Time APIs…  API-driven applications often poll for data updates – Imposes bandwidth + performance overhead – Insufficient for “real” real-time needs  Real-Time APIs push data to clients when needed  WebSockets (W3C) – Supported in all major browsers – Full-duplex communication over a single TCP connection  Webhooks – User-defined HTTP callbacks – Supports REST concepts
  • 32. SDKs vs APIs…  SDKs greatly ease adoption – No need to learn / implement underlying protocol – Native language bindings natural for developers – API provider has flexibility to change  SDKs pose great challenges too – Dependencies – Versioning – Support
  • 33. And of course - the Internet of Things  IoT devices have limited power and bandwidth – low complexity and footprint for APIs – publish/subscribe instead of request/response – minimized on-the-wire formats – automatic (re)connection management  A number of real-time protocols in use – MQTT, CoAP, AMQP, STOMP, etc  IoT Brokers connect and integrate multiple devices
  • 34. So if you’re building APIs, what should be keeping you up at night?
  • 36. Who is going to use your API?
  • 38. Align with your users technology  SOAP / REST / Corba / etc…  XML / JSON / YAML / etc…  Honor QoS and Security
  • 39. Help users understand your API vs
  • 40. Help users consume your API  Code samples in common languages  Native SDKs  Provide sandbox environments  Automated & instant API access for evaluation
  • 41. Provide API Metadata  Validation  Code Generation  Coverage  Understanding  Simulation wsdl, swagger, wadl, hal, json schema, apiary.io, xml schema, ws-*, apiary, api-docs, raml, iodocs, etc
  • 42. Align with your users domain  Process / Workflow  Nomenclature  Related APIs
  • 43. A 3:30:3 Litmus test for APIs  3 Minutes to understand what an API does  30 seconds to sign up  3 minutes to the first request (Ori Pekelman)
  • 45. API First  APIs are at the heart of – Mobile Strategies – Web Strategies – Partner / Integration Strategies – Developer / Community Strategies – Cloud / Infrastructure Strategies  APIs should be treated as a first-level citizen - not as an after sight
  • 46. Technology & Implementation  Avoid (REST) religion  Choose what’s best for you and your users  Understand the importance of DX – both internally and externally  Use your public APIs internally!
  • 47. And please… Love your APIs – and they’ll love you back!