What is an API?
- 1. WTF:API
By Jon Gottfried
@jonmarkgo
CONTENTS CONFIDENTIAL & COPYRIGHT © TWILIO INC. 2011
- 3. What is it..really?
• Public interface > Private tools
• Computers talking to computers
CONTENTS CONFIDENTIAL & COPYRIGHT © TWILIO INC. 2011
- 4. NO COPY/PASTA
CONTENTS CONFIDENTIAL & COPYRIGHT © TWILIO INC. 2011
- 5. On Being RESTful
• Hackers are Lazy
• REpresentational State Transfer
CONTENTS CONFIDENTIAL & COPYRIGHT © TWILIO INC. 2011
- 7. REST swings both
ways
• Send using REST
• Receive using REST
CONTENTS CONFIDENTIAL & COPYRIGHT © TWILIO INC. 2011
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