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Design Your API: Learnings from Twitter and Stamen

Alex Payne (Twitter), Michal Migurski (Stamen Design)
2:40pm Wednesday, 04/23/2008
Development
 Location: 2003
Presentation: Design Your API_ Learnings from Twitter and Stamen Presentation [PDF]

Web 2.0 owes much of its success to APIs: protocols to create, distribute, update, and modify the valuable data that comprises the Web. Twitter’s Alex Payne and Stamen’s Michal Migurski will discuss the design of web service APIs from the dual perspectives of client and provider, outlining best practices and cautioning against worst cases.

Topics covered will include personal experiences in supporting API developer communities, RESTful architecture, data interchange formats, design trade-offs, strategies for development, surviving rapid growth, making considerations for client software, and more.

War stories will be shared, examples given, and beautiful visualizations shown.

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Alex Payne

Twitter

Alex Payne is an engineer at Twitter, a social network of individuals sharing short status updates via the web, SMS, IM, and an extremely popular API. Since taking on the support and development of Twitter’s API, the service has grown to hundreds of millions of requests per day. Alex’s background is in web application development and information security, and his code has powered mission-critical operations, political campaigns, and non-profit initiatives. Alex lives and works in San Francisco.

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Michal Migurski

Stamen Design

Michal Migurski is a technology director and partner in San Francisco design firm Stamen. Michal architects the technical aspects of Stamen’s work, moving comfortably from active participation in the visual design process, designing database schemas and API’s, to creating the dynamic applications and visualizations Stamen is known for. Michal has participated in projects for clients including BMW, MoveOn.org, Digg.com, Yahoo!, The Exploratorium, and numerous others. Michal’s API-specific work has included URL and format design for Digg and Pownce RESTful services and purpose-built API’s for a variety of research and commercial projects.