Anyone can make an API, but making a good API that developers will love to work with is both hard and important. It can be the differentiator between your business being a winner or an also-ran.

In this talk, I’ll discuss the tricky parts of good API design - REST vs. RPC, naming, versioning, layering, and more. By the end, you’ll know how to build an API that will make developers consuming it both happy and productive.

To get the most out of this talk, you should have a basic understanding of HTTP and the fundamentals of JSON, and know at a basic level what an API is/does.