In September I attended REST Fest and API World. Here’s a couple of presentations I enjoyed, and links to my own talks.

At API World I spoke about managing change in APIs. In this article you can find a video, my slides, and a link to the conference details.

At REST Fest Greenville I spoke about how Vimeo’s API handles complex video privacy options.

At REST Fest Greenville I spoke about three times that hypermedia made my life easier.

Your API is a long-term promise. “I promise that my API actions, and how they behave will work as described in the documentation”. This isn’t an easy task, so let’s walk through the details.

If you are working with JavaScript, there’s a good chance that you have a ton of promises or callbacks nested over and over again. Promises helped me clean up the numerous callbacks, but coroutines really took it to the next level.