And I am a technology professional with an obsession for Application Programming Interfaces, also affectionately called APIs. I spend my days studying the technology, business and politics of APIs, and telling stories of what I see across the space. I thrive on monitoring the API industry in real-time, but also feel looking back at the history, while also keeping an eye on the future by tracking on new trends that I see emerging.

We are depending on more APIs to drive our web and mobile applications. Even with the simplicity of indiviual web APIs, developing an application around multiple APIs can be very time consuming. In the course of developing a common mobile application a developer may end up using 10-15 APIs- APis for storage, images, email, SMS, voice, etc. Making development costs grow with each additional API. Who aggregate Advertising APIs and FedAPI. In this section i will be tracking .

One question that I get asked a lot, is which of the API service providers will help me deploy my API. This has evolved over time, and more of them are actually helping facilitate API deployment like with API gateways.

This is one of my API research sites, focused specifically on API design. My name is Kin Lane. And I am the API Evangelist. With other links to my work. All my research is openly licensed CC-BY.

And also at Defrag in Colorado this November. Let me know if you want to connect around the subject.

Research project to keep track of established, and emerging ways of defining APIs such as Swagger, API Blueprint, and RAML. I am also working to include information about media types, schemas, and other ways to define the value APIs bring to table. My API Definitions Research Guide. A Complete Guide to JSONLD.