Quotes About API

People think about Bitcoin incorrectly. They think about it as currency or about gold or hoarding, speculation, about how much money do you make. When really, what it is is an API for programmable cash transactions.

Composite Simpler Than the Sum of Its Parts The API of a composite object should not be more complicated than that of any of its components.

We are the Siqqusim! We have stood by, waiting to take possession, and now you are ours. Yidde-oni! Engastrimathos du aba paren tares. We are Ob and Ab and Api and Apu. Our number is greater than the stars! We are more than infinity!

Everyone around here thinks features are important, because they can see them in their app, on the web page, or in the API. But no one seems to realize how important the build process is. Developers cannot be productive without a great build, integration, and test process.

For now, let's just say that if your API is re-defining the HTTP verbs or if it is assigning new meanings to HTTP status codes or making up its own status codes, it is not RESTful.

Someone consuming an API will definitely notice when the provider of that API is diverging from RESTful principles and it will seriously complicate that consumer's life.

In fact, the biggest misconception is that you can call your API RESTful if its delivering XML or JSON over HTTP. And that misconception and the resulting proliferation of horrible APIs is likely the source of RESTafarian irritation with the application of the term "RESTful" in an API context. But let's be brutally honest. Most interactive systems don't follow this model either.

To a programmer, an operating system is defined by its API.

thinking of API design as resource design is a very effective way to avoid thinking about hypermedia.

The things you're accustomed to are dangerous. In applications intended for use within an organization, a design based on API calls works well and is easy to develop. The API call metaphor assumes away the network boundary and lets a client invoke a method on a remote computer just like it would call the API of a local code library.

the "API call" metaphor inevitably exposes the server's implementation details to the clients. This introduces coupling between server code and client code.

I'm not looking to step in and make 'big, bold changes' - I think reddit is great, and the team has a lot of good features already in the pipeline to improve functionality for users and mods, help with subreddit discovery, improve the API, and help bring reddit to more people.

VK is famous for its competitions among third-party developers who build alternative versions of VK on its open API.

We originally started AdNectar to serve brand advertisers, but we've now found that our publishers are greatly benefiting from integrating our system. In addition to a new revenue source and the data our API provides, it turns out users actually prefer branded over generic virtual items.