Description:

Intro (10 mins)

• What is an API ?
• What's being ReSTful and what's not?
• Why are they useful ?
• How should it be ?
  • Standards - are there any ?
• Maintaining Backward Compatibility
  • How easy or difficult is it?
  • Learning from history - Twitter example
  • Versioning

Authentication/Authorization of an API (5 mins)

• Choices
• How it works

Tight coupling to databases / ORMs ( 5 mins)

• automagic apis
• Pros and Cons

What should you look for when choosing a lib for your REST API ( 5 mins)

Summary ( 5 mins)

Questions ( 5 mins)

Prerequisites:

Understanding of web development would be nice but is not required.

Content URLs:

Here are the slides from a presentation at my work place on REST APIs, which will be improved upon.

Speaker Info:

Devi is a freelance programmer/consultant and a trainer. She has been using Python as a primary tool in web development, machine learning etc for the past 7 years. Currently she works as a lead developer/architect at PowerToFly.

She has done M.Tech in Computational Science from IISc, before which she tried out teaching mathematics.

She has given a workshop on Web Development - Code to deployment at PyCon India, 2012, which was well received.

Speaker Links:

• LinkedIn
• GitHub
• Twitter