Join us in Digital Leaders Week (12-16 October) for APIs Revisited, a series of non-technical online events encouraging you to look again at APIs and the transformative role they could play at your organisation.
Every day, 3pm–4pm will be ‘API Hour’!
//About this talk//
'API' has become a widely used term to describe a mechanism for organisations to provide data to end users. The term API is being used in marketing literature and sales pitches with wanton abandon. But where did this term originate and what does it mean to us now?
In this talk, Mark Jose, Technical Principal at Scott Logic, will explore a little of the history of the term API and cover what he considers to be the three most current use cases. He’ll talk about REST and GraphQL with a look at the evolving standards in the 'API over the internet' space. He’ll also look at how the popularity of Event Sourcing has led to a rise in the number of Asynchronous APIs and how standards are emerging in this area too. Finally, he’ll round off with his predictions for the future of Web APIs and signpost some of the technology which is shaping that future.
