APIs are everywhere, in fact; for most things today one could say “there’s an API for that”. Microsoft’s ASP.NET Core is a brand new web framework, completely open sourced and cross platform; for building scalable- & cloud ready web applications. In this interactive talk we go on a journey to discover some of the features that ASP.NET Core offers for building practical RESTful APIs like Logging, Middleware, Routing, Configuration, Dependency Injection, Hosting, Clients and Servers. All hands on deck, it’s going to get messy!