#api lifecycle

History of API Management and Where It’s Going

The term “API Management” is used frequently, but it can mean different things to different people. There is no single “right” or “wrong” way to define it, but it is important to understand what somebody refers to when they talk about API Management. One interesting way of looking at the various possible perspectives on API Management is to look at the evolution of API Management and of the API…

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A 4-part blog post series about the stages of the API Lifecycle: (1) Plan/Design, (2) Build/Integrate, (3) Operate/Manage, and (4) Share/Engage

Why You Need to Think About APIs Before Websites. API-frist design approach | WIRED (Link)

If data is the new oil, then interfaces are the new delivery means (Link)

Electroshock therapy via APIs: Pavlok (Link)

How To Maximize Developer Adoption -- aka Business-to-Developers B2D (Link)

Using APIs to Kick Your Company’s Productivity into Overdrive (Link)

McKinsey on digital strategy: "One thing that digital allows is plug and play dynamics" (Link)

APIs.io: An API Search Engine | The New Stack (Link)

World's 4th most valuable brand Coca-Cola is establishing an API program  (Link)

Making Your API a Valuable Product (Link)

What the logs don’t tell you - Developer Economics (Link)

Err what's an API? Lessons on driving API adoption in the "not for profit" sector (Link)

Predictive APIs: Bringing Machine Learning to the Masses (Link)

Events, surveys and competitions:

Third edition of APIDays Paris (December 2-3) (Link)

API SpeedHack at APIDays Paris (December 3) (Link)

Various focus workshops at APIDays Paris: API Lifecycle, API Integration,Telco APIs