I tried to make this as understandable as possible for any party reading it which means that the wording, references, and terminology used may not reflect that of a technical paper or resource. Excuse me if you may for I wish all to understand this, and not just those with a degree in understanding technical jargon. String made up of several HTTP request elements in a single string. Normalized, sorted, and encoded.

A Powerful Interface to your API. Swagger is a simple yet powerful representation of your RESTful API. With the largest ecosystem of API tooling on the planet, thousands of developers are supporting Swagger in almost every modern programming language and deployment environment. With a Swagger-enabled API, you get interactive documentation, client SDK generation and discoverability. Paul Hill, Architect, KIXEYE.

Secure, Manage and Extend your APIs and Microservices. The open-source management layer for APIs, delivering high performance and reliability. August 11th, 2015 - Version 0. 2 has been released! Built on top of NGINX, Kong can be fully operated with a simple and easy to use RESTful API. Put your services behind Kong and add powerful functionality through Kong Plugins, in one command. Kong can run anywhere, in the cloud or on-premise - in a single, hybrid or multi-datacenter setup. Get Started in 1 Minute.

The Analytics Platform for APIs, Microservices and Serverless Software. View actual request and response logs as they come in, filter down and replay the request to experience interactive debugging like never before. With our request replay feature you can resend the exact same request to see the new response compared with the original and visually compare them. See trends data down to the minute with our timeseries charting that shows how usage is changing and visually spot any anomalies.

These are the talks that I do as part of my ongoing work as the API Evangelist. Defrag 2016 - Drone Recovery In The Attention Economy. APIStrat Boston 2016 - - Drone Recovery In The Attention Economy. APIStrat - The API Lifecycle Workshop. APIStrat - API Lifecycle Keynote. Defrag - The API Lifecycle. IDX Dev Summit - The API Opportunity In The Real Estate Industry. APIWare Webinar - The Developer Opportunity in the Global API Economy. Restlet Summer of APIs Workshop.

This is a research project to stay in tune with different approaches to deploying and operating an API portal. Along with my research, this is one area I am working to provide working prototypes that helps people work through their project.