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Open APIs: State of the Market, May 2010
1. Open APIs: State of the Market John Musser, ProgrammableWeb @johnmusser Glue Conference, May 2010
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4. APIs: Some very competitive markets Number of API providers in each of the top 15 categories Based on directory of 2,000 web APIs listed at ProgrammableWeb, May 2010
8. API Billionaires Club 5 billion API calls / day (April 2010) 1.1 billion API-delivered stories / month (March 2010) 5 billion API calls / day (October 2009) 8 billion API calls / month (Q3 2009) 3 billion API calls / month (March 2009) 3 billion API calls / day, 75% of all traffic (April 2010) Over 50% of all traffic via API (March 2008) Over 100 billion objects stored in S3 (March 2010)
9. REST vs. SOAP: Simplicity wins again Distribution of API protocols and styles Based on directory of 2,000 web APIs listed at ProgrammableWeb, May 2010
10. REST vs. SOAP, more of both, but a lot more REST Total number of APIs based on protocol and style Based on directory of 2,000 web APIs listed at ProgrammableWeb, May 2010
11. JSON Rising: 45% of all new APIs support JSON Percentage of new APIs with JSON support 132 APIs are now JSON-only, including Facebook Graph, Etsy, Hunch Based on directory of 2,000 web APIs listed at ProgrammableWeb, May 2010
12. OAuth picking up steam 20% of 133 “Social” APIs now with OAuth support 80+ APIs with OAuth support
13. APIs growing up: versioning & other best practices Old Twitter http://twitter.com/users/show/noradio.xml New Twitter http://api.twitter.com/1/users/show/noradio.xml
19. Have we seen this before? 1995 Why do we need a Web site? 2000 2005 2010 Of course we have a Web site Of course we have an API Why do we need an API?