Apis: A Strategy Guide: Creating Channels with Application Programming Interfaces Contributor(s): Jacobson, Daniel (Author), Brail, Greg (Author), Woods, Dan (Author) |
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ISBN: 1449308929 ISBN-13: 9781449308926 Publisher: O'Reilly Media OUR PRICE: $23.74 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 2012 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Computers | Web - Web Services & Apis - Computers | Programming - General |
Dewey: 005.1 |
Physical Information: 0.32" H x 7.01" W x 9.17" (0.55 lbs) 146 pages |
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Publisher Description: Programmers used to be the only people excited about APIs, but now a growing number of companies see them as a hot new product channel. This concise guide describes the tremendous business potential of APIs, and demonstrates how you can use them to provide valuable services to clients, partners, or the public via the Internet. You'll learn all the steps necessary for building a cohesive API business strategy from experts in the trenches. Facebook and Twitter APIs continue to be extremely successful, and many other companies find that API demand greatly exceeds website traffic. This book offers executives, business development teams, and other key players a complete roadmap for creating a viable API product.
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Contributor Bio(s): Jacobson, Daniel: - Daniel Jacobson is Director of Engineering for the Netflix API, which is the primary distribution channel for getting movie and subscriber information to hundreds of Netflix-ready streaming devices. Prior to Netflix, Daniel led an engineering team NPR where he created the NPR API as well as the content management system that drives NPR.org, mobile platforms, and all other digital presentations of NPR content. Woods, Dan: -Dan Woods is a seasoned CTO, author, speaker, and entrepreneur with experience in business, computer science, journalism, and publishing. He is CTO and Editor of CITO Research, a firm dedicated to creating content to improve the performance of CIO and CTOs. As an author, Dan has written or coauthored more than 20 books about business and technology, ranging from books about service-oriented architecture, open source, manufacturing, RFID, and wikis to the ideas driving the latest generation of enterprise applications, particularly in the face of Web 2.0's impact on the enterprise. Dan has written hundreds of white papers and conducted more than 1,000 interviews with experts in a variety of fields. He is also an invited speaker and moderator at international conferences. As CTO of Apigee, Greg Brail has led the Apigee technology team as it deployed its API management technology for scores of customers. Prior to joining Apigee, Greg led the technology behind BEA's WebLogic JMS and Core Engine initiatives and developed the message-delivery infrastructure at TransactPlus. |