Practical api design epub

He has seen projects and teams that run like clockwork accomplishing amazing things and others that make the Titanic look like a pleasure cruise. He discovered pretty quickly that the only way to avoid the iceberg is to get the right information to the right people as quickly as possible. Keith started his career at the Library of Congress in Washington, DC where he was working to answer the ultimate geek question "how much data is in the Library of Congress? On the technical side, he developed FoxNews' mobile sites pre-iPhone from concept to launch in 45 days; the voting system for live musical performance show; the news syndication system for Cygnus Business Media 65 sites across 8 verticals ; and the Drupal-based syndication system for a professional sports league and its teams.

Further, he's led many customer-focused efforts to help them use the API in new and creative ways to drive their own revenue and customer experiences. He is currently an working with a number of companies on API design principles, software quality assurance, and software project triage and recovery. James Higginbotham has over 15 years of experience and has architected, built, and deployed software products for both Fortune companies and early-stage startups.

He combines his love of software with a focus on the product experience to create a balance between the complexity of scalability and ease of use. His experience with both startups and the Fortune provides deep insight into accelerating product development at any scale. James has delivered a wide variety of solutions for the healthcare, commercial insurance, non-profit, and airline industries. His solutions include software-as-a-service, supply chain management, and building multi-sided marketplace solutions.

James has deployed to the public cloud and internal data centers. His goal is to design and build software that balances the complexity of scalability and distributed computing with the ease of a modular, testable codebase. He believes that APIs should be designed to solve problems based on the workflows of the industry while providing a great developer experience.

He is the founder of an Austin-based services company that focuses on API design, development, and cloud infrastructure. See full terms. If you buy a Leanpub book, you get free updates for as long as the author updates the book!

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All rights reserved. About the Book If you read the tech press, everyone knows they need an API but most aren't really sure what it is. Privacy Policy. New eBooks. Search Engine. You might think more than enough design books exist in the programming world already. In fact, there are so many that it makes sense to ask why you would read yet another.

Is there really a need for yet another design book? The design of application programming interfaces can affect the behavior, capabilities, stability, and ease of use of end-user applications. With this book, you will learn how to design a good API for large-scale long-term projects.