APIs Uncensored

The official home of the APIs Uncensored podcast, a monthly series where Ole Lensmar and Lorinda Brandon blather about all things APIs with experts in the industry.

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0:00 - 02:49 Welcome and the rules that don't matter (why do we say them?) 02:50 - 06:45 John Sheehan's sordid past, including Rest# and how it pays for his parking 06:46 - 09:52 The birth and growth of Runscope 09:53 - 21:40 The birth and growth of API Monitoring (and how Lorinda & Ole were ahead of the curve but John was cooler) 21:41 - 24:00 Ole just has to talk about SOAP and John has a product name he wants to steal 24:00 - 44:30 Topic of the day: John's Starbucks cup, but mostly Webhooks (although John really wanted to talk about hockey) 44:31 - 56:00 Our favorite API news stories (Traffic & Weather, DevOps burn-out, APIstrat, Mashape & Paw, WordPress rewrite, Swift goes open source) 56:00 - 56:50 Ole forgets our email address again ([email protected])

Resources: runscope.com www.infoworld.com/article/3009004/…-developers.html clarify.io/blog/api-strategy-c…ference-2015-recap/ www.programmableweb.com/news/mashape-…ip/2015/06/04 github.com/apple/swift

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0:00 - 2:02 The usual ... intros and rules that don't matter (wherein Vanessa calls herself a "love refugee") 2:03 - 3:29 Who is Load Impact? What do they do and why? 3:30 - 29:00 Load test approaches and behaviors, API load testing concerns and strategies, general market observations 29:01 - 51:30 Maybe the Topic of the Day... marketing your API and more about load testing tools, strategies, industry, how marketing and load testing go together... just a lot of wandering conversation about API stuff 51:31 - 1:12:11 Our favorite news stories (see links below) 1:12:12 - 1:13:00 Ole remembers our email address!! ([email protected])

Links: Love Refugees: lostinstockholm.com/2009/02/09/the-…efugee-project/ Load Impact: loadimpact.com FaceBook API issue: phys.org/news/2015-01-faceboo…orldwide.html#inlRlv Absolut Vodka API: www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpUAaBalq-Y Nordic APIs: nordicapis.com REST bashing: www.draconianoverlord.com/2015/08/11/r…graphql.html APIMatic: apimatic.io Medisafe & Human API: www.reuters.com/article/2015/08/1…cz+8c+PRN20150818

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0:00 - 1:30 Welcome and Introductions (where Ole gets wrong information about the episode number - it's not #8!) , Rules of the Road (with our usual rationalization about how we don't have to abide by them) 1:31 - 2:19 Intro by Brady Gaster, the man, the mystery- who is this masked man? 2:20 - 3:13 Intro by Richie Morris, swashbucklin' legend 3:14 - 5:20 How Swashbuckle came to be 5:21 - 15:33 Swagger and Swashbuckle at Microsoft 15:34 - 22:13 Evolution from WSDL to Swagger, value of open source in general, adoption of open source at Microsoft 22:14 - 29:50 what's coming next for Azure and Swashbuckle, OData & Swagger, and some minor fart and cheese references (yes really) 29:51 - 38:09 More on OData and Swagger and the evolution of the various formats/tools (and where we find out what kind of deodorant Brady uses) 38:10 - 46:30 News stories (in which Lorinda gets an F) 46:31 - 48:13 Wrap-up (and a monthly reminder to Ole that our email address [email protected])

Interesting links:

Swagger (swagger.io) Microsoft Azure (azure.microsoft.com/) Navigating Cancer (www.navigatingcancer.com/) Swashbuckle (www.nuget.org/packages/Swashbuckle/) Customize Swashbuckle-generated API definitions (azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documenta…ckle-customize/) Documenting your APIs with Swagger featuring Richard Morris (channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Web+Camps+…e-Richard-Morris) AutoRest (www.nuget.org/packages/AutoRest/) Amazon API Gateway announcement (aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-…ication-backends/)

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Coming up in July

Brady Gaster and Richard Morris from Microsoft join us - who knows what we’ll talk about? But... I suspect we’ll dig into how MSFT uses Swagger as well as a variety of other relevant and not-so-relevant topics. 

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0:00 - 3:48 Intro and Rules (with exclusions to the Exclusion Rule) 3:49 - 25:40 All about Jason, how the API process works at Paypal, and musings about API implementation/strategy 25:41 - 42:25 Topic of the day "enterprise APIs" and how to put governance in place effectively 42:26 - 54:15 News of the day 54:16 - end, wrap up

Resources: Paypal (http://www.paypal.com) Genius (http://genius.com) Schema Guru (https://github.com/snowplow/schema-guru) "White House Sides with Oracle" (http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/05/white-house-sides-with-oracle-tells-supreme-court-apis-are-copyrightable/) API Workshop with Jason Harmon (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKK2ir0jqCvfB-kzBGka_Lg)

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Coming Up

Episode 6: Catching up with Jason Harmon

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In this episode, we inflict ourselves on Marsh Gardiner to talk about Apigee, Swagger, and how Swagger is like regional cuisine

0:00-3:36 Welcome and Rules 3:37-13:58 Swagger and Apigee, how Swagger got its name, and a bit of praise for WADL (also some references to regional cuisine) 13:59-19:26 What's happening with Apigee and the world of API Management 19:27-28:00 A-127, Swagger tools, and Apigee's involvement with open source 28:01-50:30 Topic of the Day! Swagger governance 50:31-1:06:00 Our favorite news stories(Dropbox, autonomous cars, sdks.io)

References: sdks.io blogs.dropbox.com/developers/2015/…-dropbox-api-v2/ techcrunch.com/2015/01/18/autono…r-than-you-think/ github.com/apigee-127/a127-documentation/wiki swagger.io apigee.com

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Our guest in this episode is the one and only Mike Amundsen from API Academy. 0:00-4:19 The usual waste of time talking about the rules, the exceptions to the rules, and our never-ending quest for questions 4:20-15:17 API Academy, trends in API and microservices adoption 15:18-23:55 Contemporary culture of software development and new ways of interacting 23:36-38:30 Topic of the day! Hypermedia! 38:31-39:20 The stuff we should have edited out :-) 39:21-52:10 Favorite News Stories (Tinder, Opera, MSFT Azure)

Resources: API Academy (www.apiacademy.co/) Tinder API hack (www.theverge.com/2015/3/25/827774…ros-swiping-bros) Demo Opera (abc7news.com/technology/histori…t-stanford/606725/) Microsoft Azure and Swagger (blogs.msdn.com/b/webdev/archive/…ure-api-apps.aspx)

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In this episode, we hold Laura Heritage hostage and make her talk to us about microservices and scrapbooking... really.

0:00-2:44 Welcome, intros, rules (and a plea for questions!) 2:45-5:49 Why SOA Software is now Akana Inc 5:50-8:29 What's going on these days at Akana 8:30-21:25 What it takes to throw "old dust off your shoulders" and be relevant in a younger changing market (in other words, old people from old technologies pondering meetups) 21:26-25:18 Hackathons... are they just so 2014? 25:19-43:30 Microservices... not just technology, but org, mindset, leadership too 43:31-53:03 Our favorite API news stories and wrap-up

Stuff mentioned in the podcast: - Akana on why they changed their name  - Ian Goldsmiths post on Microservices  - Mike Amundsens definition of Microservices - Traffic-and-weather API podcast - Stripe does Bitcoins - Apple Watch - Apigees IPO

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In this episode, we catch up with Tony Tam, CEO of Reverb and creator of swagger.

0:00-2:24 Intros and House Rules (and obligatory complaints about cold snowy Boston) 2:25-6:34 How are things at Reverb and Wordnik? (and a little bit about adopting words) 6:35- 27:30 swagger - how does it compare to the other formats, taglines, benefit of community and contributors, tony shares his secret to success and uses the word "asymptotic" (look that up!), ole enlightens us about how swagger is like the GoPro of description formats 27:31- 33:55 future of swagger and some cool stuff added to swagger 2.0 33:56 - 46:20 Misconceptions about APIs (and maybe some TMI about Lorinda's family) 46:21 - 52:09 API News, where we pick our favorite news stories of the month 52:09 - 53:04 Wrap up

Resources: swagger - swagger.io swagger.ed - github.com/chefArchitect/swagger.ed Alchemy API - alchemyapi.com Tesla performance update - www.roadandtrack.com/new-cars/car-t…d-even-faster/

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Next Up in our February episode: We talk with Tony Tam, CEO of Reverb Technologies and creator of @SwaggerAPI

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In this episode, we chat with John Musser, original founder of ProgrammableWeb and currently the CEO/Founder of API Science. 0:00-3:49 Intros and House Rules (3 minutes of rules! WHA-A-AT?) 3:50-8:39 What is John Musser up to now? 8:40-21:42 API Monitoring - current trends, importance, how it's different from web monitoring 21:43- 33:45 Kin Lane's API Subway Map 33:46-53:26 Our favorite news items and trends from the past month - API Security, MoonPig, IoT Congressional Caucus Resources: http://apiscience.com http://subway.map.apievangelist.com/index.html http://welivesecurity.com/2015/01/06/moonpig-security-hole http://mashable.com/2015/01/03/internet-of-things-congressional-caucus