That’s the niche InstantAPI, which is launching at TechCrunch Disrupt Europe today, is going after. With InstantAPI, developers can create an API for their services and publish them in minutes.

1. Educate your team on API best practices. Consider hosting workshops, investing in online courses and creating documentation to ensure everyone in the company is up to date. 2.

If your organization is considering creating an external API marketplace, here are some of the questions you should be asking.

In this post, learn best practices for getting and using your Google Maps API Key as well as the benefits for multi-location brands.

Beyond creating a portal, enterprises also need to incorporate incentives in the marketplace that promote API reuse. There are both monetary and non-financial incentives to drive adoption.

Most exciting to me though is Dapper’s basic service, just launched this week. The company says it’s effectively offering an easy way to create an API from any website.

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Others stem from the technical guidance in Roy Fielding's dissertation on representational state transfer. Regardless of their inspiration, developers should follow all the REST naming conventions to ...

For example, a developer might create an API to meet a temporary need to pull data from one system into another, but then fail to decommission it after the transfer is complete.

About the Author Sam Nasr has been a software developer since 1995, focusing mostly on Microsoft technologies. Having achieved multiple certifications from Microsoft (MCAD, MCTS (MOSS), and MCT), Sam ...