Summit 2015: Developing a public API / Yonatan Maman

Having a public API is a common approach when companies want to make the shift from being a solution and become a platform. In the last year, while developing Outbrain's Amplify public API, we had dilemmas, we faced challenges and learned valuable lessons. In this session I will share what we have learned in term of development, execution and management of a public API, and will talk about things like:

• How to build the development team, and how to set its objectives. 
• Why it is important that the business guys your work with will know what is API ? 
• Why developing public API is different in term of the involvement of the developers in the business decisions, settings the priorities and meeting the users ? 
• Which versioning approach to take ? 
• What you should know, and do before launching public API ? 
• Documentation 
• Testing - Automatic, manual 
• Monitoring 
• "This is not a pure RESTFul" is it a valid argument ? 
• How to maintain the internal API together with the public API ? 
• How to within the organization the importance of the API ? 
• The importance of "eating your own dog food" 

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