The document discusses 7 global movements that are evolving the story of APIs: 1) continued growth of public APIs, 2) acquisitions of API management platforms by large companies, 3) open banking initiatives requiring banks to provide APIs, 4) the enactment of privacy laws like GDPR, 5) emerging uses of blockchain technology beyond cryptocurrency, 6) the Google vs Oracle legal case on copyrighting APIs, and 7) developments in AI and IoT powered by APIs. The presentation argues these trends represent "rising actions" that will lead to APIs becoming the modern lingua franca for B2B communication and continued innovation across many industries in the coming years.

1. 7 Global Movements That Are
Evolving The Story of APIs
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2. An API Community
API Tooling, Vendors
API Consumers, Developers
Thought Leaders, Bloggers
API Owners, Practitioners
Blog, Digest
Events
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3. Unique Economy Perspective
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4. We're Storytellers
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5. Exposition
aThe Classic Story Arc
Climax
Falling Action
Resolution
Rising Action
Act 1 Act 2 Act 3
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6. What Are Its Rising Actions?
If The API Economy
Has A Story,
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7. #1: Public
API Growth
...20,000 APIs And Counting
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9. ● Size: 19,758 public web
APIs (ProgrammableWeb, June 2018 data)
● Velocity: Plateaued?
2005-2013 Huge growth
● Other Estimates:
● 50,000 - API Hound
● Other Approaches:
Partner, Private, not seen.
● Nearly all industries
#1: 20,000 Public APIs
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10. "APIs Hold Key To Digital Transformation"
– Forbes
The API Provider Rising Action:
"The Unsung Heroes of our Connected World"
– Visual Capitalist
Evidence of
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11. #2: The API Space
Gets Acquired
…Enterprises Up Agility
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12. #2: Acquisitions of API
Management Platforms
Redhat - acquisition of 3scale -
2016
Apigee acquired by Google - 2016 TIBCO acquires Mashery - 2015
Salesforce Acquires Mulesoft -
2018
Rogue Wave Software acquires
Akana - 2016
Oracle acquires Apiary - 2017
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13. #2: From API to IPO
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14. "...persistent appetite for API management"
– Tech Target
The API Economy Rising Action:
"APIs have emerged as big business"
- VentureBeat
Evidence of
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15. #3: PSD2 Ushers The
Open Banking Wave
...All Bank APIs Hang Ten
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16. ● PSD2: EU Banks must provide APIs
● CMA: UK's open banking initiative
● World-wide: Other players in North
America, Australia, Asia, and
worldwide respond
● Many new entrants
● FinTech: Excitement
#3: The Bank Becomes
Programmable
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17. The Open Banking Rising Action:
"...persistent appetite for API management"
– Nordea
"300 FinTech Signups in 72 Hours"
– Gunnar Berger, Nordea
"API Thinking must replace API Doing"
- Flavia Sequeira, ING Bank
Evidence of
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18. Intuitive banks are investing in microservices
design for delivering niche functionality
Decomposing The Bank
Case Study: CIBC is
homebrewing a microservices
framework.
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19. #4: GDPR Happened
...Data Security Takes A Public Stage
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20. #3: In Case You Didn't Receive
300 Emails About GDPR
● Another EU initiative with global
repercussions
● All about Data privacy
● Transparent breach notices
● New rules to only allow personal
data sharing with user consent
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21. Awkward Timing...
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22. #3: In Case You Didn't See Zuck's
Disappointed Dad Face 300 Times
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23. What Means for API Owners?
With regulation and public outcry over data
breaches, data privacy has taken center
stage
• APIs that handle user data must comply
(Unless you want to separate geographical data sets - what a pain)
• Improve API security wherever possible
• Emphasis on API partner screening
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24. #5: Blockchain
...API Economy Poised To Accelerate
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25. The Blockchain Rising Action:
"Blockchains Will Change the World"
- Fortune
Evidence of
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26. Blockchain: Uses Beyond
Cryptocurrency
● Medical Records: MedVault (proof of concept),
Medicalchain
● Legal: SmartContract
● Industrial Operations: Boeing
● Voting: Agora powers Sierra Leone election, March 7 -
first election with immutable ledger!
● Supply Chain Management
● much much more...
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27. Cool example:
AIKON: Decentralized API Marketplace
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28. The Blockchain Rising Action:
"...persistent appetite for API management"
– Nordea
"This process would be impossible without APIs."
– BBVA
Evidence of
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29. #6: Google Vs Oracle
Verdict Leaves Industry Implications...
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30. Court Case Timeline
● 2007: Google Announces use of Oracle
Java APIs in Android
● 2010: Oracle files lawsuit
● 2012: District court rules that APIs aren't
subject to copyright
● 2014: Decision overturned
● 2016: Ruling in Google favor
● 2018: Federal appeals court, rules in
favor of Oracle
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31. The API Legal Rising Action:
"...persistent appetite for API management"
– Nordea
"Oracle vs Google case threatens foundations of
software design" - The Conversation
"
– Graph
"the case has already had a permanent effect on the
way developers build software"
- Wired
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32. Implications:
● Java APIs ≠ SaaS APIs
● Are APIs Copyrightable?
● Can open source be copyrightable?
● Is unlicensed use permissible under U.S. fair use?
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33. #7: From Empathic
Robots to Drunk Drones
API-Powered AI and IoT Turn
Future Into Reality
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34. The AI Rising Action:
Evidence of
● AI recognition functionality
● New dev ecosystems
○ Voice assistants
■ Amazon's Smart Home Skill API
■ Google Assistant SDK
○ Chatbots
■ Facebook Messenger Platform
■ Slack: Bot, App ecosystem
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35. The AI Rising Action:
"powerful technologies like machine learning and
A.I. -- accessed via open APIs -- [are now used] to
identify new opportunities, create new solutions
and solve problems in new ways altogether.""
– ComputerWorld
Evidence of
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36. The IoT Rising Action:
Evidence of
● New dev ecosystems are emerging around IoT:
○ Smart Cities:
○ Smart Home
○ Drones
■ DroneKit: SDK and web API to easily develop
apps for your drones.
■ Airmap: Open APIs to drone devs
■ Web-based remote sensing
■ Landmark Legislation: NJ
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37. The IoT Rising Action:
"...persistent appetite for API management"
– Nordea
"APIs will glue together the Internet of things"
– Infoworld
"The Universe Is Programmable. We Need an API for
Everything"
- Wired
Evidence of
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38. The IoT Rising Action:
Evidence of
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39. Back to the Story
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40. Falling Action
Resolution
Act 3
So What
Happens In
Act 3?
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41. API=Modern
Communication
The New Global B2B Lingua Franca
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42. APIs Rock and Revive
APIs Continue To Enable Innovation
And Reinvent Brick And Mortar
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43. API Tooling Space Grows
Responds To Meet New Entrants
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44. API Strategy Is Refined
Developer Experience, Platform Strategy
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45. API Security Becomes
Business Critical
Public APIs Hunker Down Access
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46. API Standards Evolve
OpenAPI, GraphQL, gRPC, & others
Meet Needs Of New Tech
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47. Interconnected Universe
Predictive Tech That
Improves Quality of Life
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Evolving The Story of APIs
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