APIs are reshaping the economy, create a “platform economy”. The purpose of APIdays the conference dedicated to the API (Application Programming Interface), is to show why and how the APIs are the future of the industry. For two days, international speakers took the podium to address in turn the technical aspects API for developers, but also strategic, market and business for policymakers
François Bourdoucle (pictured) opened the conference with the “Industries in 2030″ session. According to him, Elon Musk is the person to follow for the future of the industry. With Tesla, he reinvents the automobile industry in improving both the car and the service to users through digital, creating a “full-stack startup”, that is to say a platform.
The key to the economics of startups will invent new uses to which consumers will hitches. In this economy, there can be only one monopoly, no place for a second. “The full-stack startups and natural monoples are the components of the third industrial revolution,” he said.
Mike Amundsen AC technology takes us back in history, 50 years back before the last 50 years of the history of computing, the birth of the information age, at the time when Paul Otlet, Patrick Geddes, Melvil Dewey worked there 100 years on design information. Then came the computer, Internet, Web … Mike Amundsen tells the story better propel us into the future, which has already been invented 30 years ago, recalling that all the great pioneers of computer and Internet worked for the cause and not for profit.
Lorinda Brandon SmartBear intervenes and explains how to prepare its API to present the open. “An API is ready when it understandable both for developers and for end users,” she says. For this, the API has to go through different stages; documentation, testing (functional, load, safety), simulation (mocking via virtualization), evangelism, management and monitoring. “The standardization of API? We’re not there yet, we are for the moment on an innovation cycle. “
For its part, Cyril Vart FaberNovel (photo credit Benjamin Boccas) API provides a panorama of the economy, including returns on cases that show how customers traditonnelles industries such as cosmetics (Polar Orbis), insurance (AXA) can reinvent itself through the API.
These companies as well as more recent ones such as Uber managed to develop a ECOSYSTEM partners and offer additional services to users. In this economy APIs, the developer of jurisdiction is primodiale and Cyril Vart shows all the opportunities to learn the code from the programming workshops for children to such schools developers of 42 or Simplon.co.
In line Mark O’Neill Axway explains how a successful business through the API. According to Gartner, by 2016, 50% of B2B collaborations will be via APIs. The issue of passing API does not arise. In 1995, we asked the question: do we need a website? In 2000, you could say, “of course, we have a website! “In 2010, we again asked:” do we need to have an API? “In 2015 we will say” sure, we have an API! Dropoff window. Mark O’Neill, supporting examples with Essent, electricity supplier and BMW insists API security.
After the course of the history of computing history, it was the turn of Luis Borges Quina of Apidaze to tell the story of the phone and Telecom since 1850. Telecoms should also disrupter and APIs are the solution. “The software devours the network, and devour the API software.”
Dirk Hoerig Speed.io will discuss the future of trade in particular with an innovative demonstration of experience of Purchase with Google Glass by scanning QRcode “Okay glass, start shopping. Ok glass, scan product. Ok glass, buy product, “did he just said, and the product is found in the caddy.
The API, the future of programming
On the second day Tim Messerschmidt PayPal provides an overview of opportunities APIs beyond the web, including the Internet of Things, Bluetooth Low Energy technologies, Estimote Beacon, the open hardware (Raspberry Pi, Arduino Yun, Intel Edison, The Spark One ….). Some wonderful prospects.
The long-awaited Romain Huet Twitter did not disappoint. Roman first presents the tools available to developers to use the Twitter API: the Crashlytics kit, an impressive crash analysis tool to improve the reliability of the API. MobPub is a kit to exploit the advertising API.
But the highlight of the show is the real-time demo of developing a remote control for AR Drone. Within minutes, Romain built a Twitter app through API, Xcode, Node.js and pilot the drone via tweets: off, looping. Completely stunning! The future of programming is there, no doubt (see the video).
The session
“Big data and APIs Machine Learning” Sam Bessalah is most instructive. On the one hand because it démistifie the Machine Learning, and also provides concrete solutions. Using Big Data, create predictive algorithms, it is ultimately a story API. What is machine learning? It’s finding patterns in the data, generating algorithms, and produce outputs (predictions, recommendations …). With machine learning libraries and frameworks (H2O scikit learn, WEKA, Spark, mahout, GraphLab, R …), the predictive web API (wit.ai, bigml, Prediction API, wise.io, IBM Watson, Alchemy API , PredictionIO, Y hat …), the machine learning is within the reach of developers.
Jerome Louvel in Restlet has for its part a session on the state of the art Web API languages. Computer languages are abstraction layers (hardware / assembler / system / application) and the web API languages come over the application languages. APIs have their own languages and they mature. Languages such as RAML, Swagger, Blueprint describes the API API contracts allow the generation of SDK clients, server skeletons, suites of tests, mock servers …
Speedhack
Today, Swagger stands out in terms of adoption by the community, version 2.0 was announced in May to GlueCon. The API languages and associated tools allow development centered approaches API or API code-first-first, which can be combined. The API-first approach seems to emerge. The new generation of IDE tools are SaaS APIs that allow crafting (design and prototyping): code editor, visual designers, contract generation, SDK, skeletons …
This is the Jerome Louvel opportunity to announce the launch of the new Restlet Studio tool that allows collaborative editing, API Implementation writing for business logic, support for multiple languages (Swagger, RAML) … Restlet also announces the APISpark launch of a PaaS platform for developers to design, publish and manage their API.
On the occasion of meetings took place Speedhack, mini hackathon three hours. The objective is to meet not one, but seven mini-challenges offered by the sponsors of the event. The Mayor of Paris offers eg retrieve the JSON list of cultural events in the city and place them on a map. Twitter offers to display in an iOS or Android app on APIdays tweets or speedhack. Among the eleven concurrent teams Tinyclues has largely detached with a score of 14 points.
In the end, a success for the third edition of APIdays with an exceptional participation rate (650 out of 700 participants status), quality speakers, a pleasant and impeccable organization, although we would have liked a better synchronization between the parallel sessions avoiding losing the beginning of a session. APIDays in three years became a key event for developers and we look forward to the next edition
Find the Storify 2014 APIDays, with links to the presentations .
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