Real-Time APIs at API Strategies and Practices

Real-Time APIs are much more prevalent than you would probably believe. Some of the best known API providers – whether an API is what they’re known for or not – offer some kind of Real-Time API. WebHooks, HTTP Long-Polling, HTTP Streaming, WebSocket or WebRTC, you’ll be able to find a well-known name that uses one of these as part of their API offering.

API consumers are becoming much more aware of the benefits of real-time thanks to the experiences real-time technology can deliver and the emergence of more real-time APIs. API providers are also beginning to better understand those benefits and in some cases react to the increased demand.

This raises the questions: How do I build a real-time API? and Where do I start when building a Real-Time API?

These are difficult questions that needs to take in many factors. But they’re questions to which I want to shed some light on the answers to in my upcoming talk at API Strategies & Practices Europe/API Day Berlin on Friday the 24th April 2015.

Without going into all the details, here’s what I’m going to cover:

• Why you should offer a real-time API and who’s already doing so.
• What data should you share and what format should it be in?
• What real-time transport should you use?
• What Tools can help? Does anything like RAML, Swagger or API Blueprint existing for real-time APIs?
• Are there any real-time frameworks that help build an API?
• How do you secure your real-time API?
• How do you scale your real-time API?

If you’re already booked up for APIStrat/API Days in Berlin then I’ll hopefully see you in the Architecture, Scalability, and Microservices session where I’ll be giving this talk.

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