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Kin Lane’s Industry Guide to API Design
A go-to guide to API design, including tools, platforms, and best practices for API developers.
Winning in the API Economy
Using software and APIs to transform your business, drive revenues, broaden distribution, and unleash innovation.
The API Owner’s Manual
Best practices of successful API teams
Getting Started #1: Securing your API with 3scale
Get up and running with 3scale API Management Platform in no time. How to quickly prototype the access control layer from the 3scale dashboard using the APIcast cloud API gateway. This is the first of the go-live steps detailed on the home page of your admin dashboard. Find more information on support.3scale.net.
Getting Started #2: Configuring API Access Policies in 3scale
Get up and running with 3scale API Management Platform in no time. How to apply access policies to differentiate between different tiers of users, give them different rate limits as well as access to different API methods. This is the second in the Fast Track to integration steps. Learn more at support.3scale.net.
Tutorial: 3scale – APIcast, an API Gateway for the Small Business and Startup
APItools is the most effective way to use APIs and stay in absolute control of API traffic. Troubleshoot, modify and monitor your API traffic by proxying HTTP(s) requests through APItools. Use it in the cloud or in your servers. Built wiht Lua and Nignx (OpenResty) and it’s open-source.
User video: Paul Butterworth getting started with 3scale API Management
In this video Paul Butterworth, CTO of Emotive, talks about getting started with 3scale and discusses the value of its distributed, hybrid architecture. 3scale is the leading self-serve API Management Platform, making it easy to open, distribute, control, and monetize APIs.
Steven Willmott, 3scale – Red Hat Summit 2016
Steven Willmott, Co-Founder & CEO of 3scale (a Red Hat company), sits down with hosts Stu Miniman and Brian Gracely at Red Hat Summit 2016 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, California.
Manfred Bortenschlager at APIdays Mediterranea 2015: Running a successful API program?
Manfred Bortenschlager (from 3scale) sepaks at APIdays Mediterranea 2015: What does it take to design and run a successful API program?
Mark Cheshire at APIDays/APIStrat Berlin 2015
Mark Cheshire, 3scale COO — “Kill the fail whale for your API”
Changing the face of transport via APIs
Manfred Bortenschlager, API Market Development Director at APIDays Paris in 2014.
If data is the new oil, then interfaces are the new delivery means
This is the recording of Manfred’s Ignite talk at the O’Reilly Strata+Hadoop conference in Barcelona. It was about getting the interfaces right as an enabler of the benefits of the Second Machine Age.
Take Control of your APIs in a Microservice Architecture
Microservices are a new architectural approach to modularize systems into smaller units.
APIs and the Creation of Wealth in the Digital Economy – APIDays Paris 2015 Keynote
Democratizing Value Creation and Distribution in the Second Machine Age, Steven Willmott
API Model Canvas for successful API strategies and programs
Manfred (@ManfredBo) presented the API Model Canvas at the APIStrat conference on November 20, 2015, in Austin. The API Model Canvas is intended to be used to create and run successful API strategies and programs in a sustainable way.
Microservices in action: How to actually build them
Andrzej from the 3scale team gave this talk during the API Meetup Barcelona about how to practically build microservices using AWS Lambda, Amazon API Gateway, the JAWS framework and 3scale API Management.
The API-Application Semantic Gap
Lightning Talk @ RestFest 2015 on Rest APIs and Application Semantics
Integrating, exposing and managing distributed data with RESTful APIs and open source
This was a 1h demo and talk co-presented by Red Hat’s Cojan van Ballegooijen and 3scale’s Manfred Bortenschlager talking about data integration of various diverse sources via data virtualization. Then we exposed the data via RESTful APIs and added the 3scale API Management layer on top to get full control and visibility about API access.
Building Successful API Programs in Higher Education
In this webinar, hosted on August 27, 2015, Steven Willmott discusses the benefits of API development in higher education.
APIs.JSON: Bootstrapping The Web of APIs
APIs.JSON – technology for building the Web of APIs. Talk from the APIStrat unconference at Gluecon. 19th May 2015
API Model Canvas (APIDays Mediterranea 2015)
Designing and running an API program successfully is difficult and goes far beyond technical challenges.
APIs and Unlocking the Value of Your Data
APIs provide an interface to data that delivers its value.
Building Hypermedia APIs in JavaScript
Using the fortune.js framework to build link-based and machine-readable APIs.
How to use Donuts and Onions for Scaling API Programs
Scaling an API program requires far more than just a technically functional API.
API Zen for Developers
Learn the four noble truths of API development.
APIs for Startups
Build core value by running your business from the inside out.



