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1. 1 000 000 APIs in 2017.
What is the glue of APIs?
Building the programmable web and the
Internet Operating System

2. ABOUT ME
Mehdi Medjaoui
Co-founder of Webshell.io
API Rating Agency blog
{"apis":"the joy"} tumblr
APIdays.io event

5. "APIs are like Glue."
John Musser, Founder of
Prgrammableweb.com, 2005

6. - Google Mashup editor
- Microsoft Popfly
- Yahoo Pipes

7. - Google Mashup editor
- Microsoft Popfly
- Yahoo Pipes
You're so 2006 !!!

9. - IFTTT
- Zapier
- Rules.io
- Ritc.io
- Cloudwork
- Elastic.io
2013

10. APIs are like Glue?
Not yet.

11. So,
What is the glue of APIs?

12. IN 2017, WE EXPECT
1 000 000
APIs

13. APIs ARE INTERFACES

14. IN 2017?
1 000 000
APIs DESIGNS ?

16. WHAT'S THE WAY?
SO,

21. IETF STANDARDS
BUSINESS STANDARDS
DEFACTO STANDARDS

22. IETF STANDARDS

24. too long...

25. BUSINESS
STANDARDS

27. DEFACTO
STANDARDS

28. MODERN COMPUTING STANDARDS
WEB STANDARDS

29. Future interface : What do the last 50+
years of modern computing history tell
us about the future?

30. WHAT DID THE EVOLUTION OF
MODERN COMPUTING BRING ?

31. "We are Software"
Jeff Lawson , Twilio

32. "Drinking the water of a well,
one should never forget who
dug it."
Chinese proverb

33. REST
Roy Fielding

34. JSON
Douglas Crockford

35. Node
Transform latency into a feature
Ryan Dahl

36. Git
Versionning for arborescence
Linus Torvalds

37. COLLABORATION
"1M eyes will see 1M projects"

38. SMALLER SERVICES
BUT NUMEROUS

40. HOW IS THE WEB EVOLVING?

41. BROWSER BASED

42. HTML5
Backbone.js
Bootstrap
Angular.js
Ember.js
Websocket
WebRTC

43. Javascript is the Defacto
standard of the web

44. Javascript is the Defacto
standard of the web
so Javascript will be the
defacto standard for
web APIs

45. The whole expressivity of a web
language to script APIs
APIs become Objects :
apis.google.maps()
apis.twitter.auth()
apis.facebook.getFriends()

46. AN OPERATING
SYSTEM OF THE
WEB?

47. The software industry : PC phase

48. The software industry : cloud phase

49. Hardware
Drivers
File
system
System call interface
CPU
RAM
Libraries
user programs
Hardware level
Kernel level
Kernel level
User level

50. Hardware Abstraction Layer
APIs Abstraction Layer
(schema.org)

51. APIs & Webservices
API wrappers
File
system
API
CPU
RAM
Sandboxing
Libraries
Cloud level
Kernel level
Kernel level
User level
user scripts

52. CPU
HARD
DRIVE
Shell
FsKernel
Program
Operating system
SOFTWARE HARDWARE

53. IAAS
CLOUD
STORAGE
Shell
FsKernel
API Script
Operating system
SOFTWARE HARDWARE
APIs

54. Shell
FsKernel
API Script
Operating system
SOFTWARE HARDWARE
APIs

55. Javascript as the
assembly language
of the web

56. "JS is the x86 assembly language of the web.
The point is JS is about as low as we can go. But
it also has higher level facilities"
Brendan Eich, inventor of Javascript
●

57. Assembly
Language
C
Language
Javascript
Coffeescrip
t
Hardware
Kernel
UNIX
MSDOS
Program
APIs
Kernel
Webshell
Apps
Bytecode
Node.js
V8

58. The whole expressivity of a
web language to script APIs
http://api.webshell.io?code={code}&args={args}
APIs become Objects

59. The whole expressivity of a
web language to script APIs
var m = apis.google.maps({height:
'500px'});
m.center(args.city);
m.zoom(12);

60. apis.facebook.auth().success(function() {
//When the authentication is done, we
retrieve user's data
return {
me: apis.facebook.me(),
friends: apis.facebook.getUserFriends
({user: 'me'})
}
});

61. From Object Oriented
Programming to API
oriented programming?

62. The glue of APIs
for the Internet Operating System

63. A cloud platform, on Node.js,
where developers can script
client-side and/or server-side
APIs in Javascript, create new
REST/JSON micro-services
on the fly, in a collaborative
file system Github-
synchronized

65. is an open platform
with an open API

66. You were OOP developer, now
are you an
API oriented developer?

67. "Never in the face of digital
revolution has so much been
owed by so many to so few."

68. THANKS!
Mehdi Medjaoui
@webshell_
m.medjaoui@webshell.io