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Deepa Goyal

Building great products, one sprint at a time.

Mar 9, 2022

A Visual History of APIs

We have come a long way since Roy Fielding's famous dissertation on REST and a handful of emerging technology companies like Salesforce, eBay, and Amazon leading the way to the definition of web APIs we use today. Over the years we saw how Amazon we...

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Miki Szeles

Everything related to test automation

Mar 9, 2022

Awesome infographics Deepa. I am a test auzomation engineer so I deal with APIs daily. I followed you to make sure I won't miss any of your posts. 😊

Miki Szeles

Everything related to test automation

Mar 10, 2022

At the moment at work I only use our internal API but in the past I have integrated many cameras into our Video Management Platform via REST and Soap APIs. Believe me, it was a hell. Every camera vendor had their own APIs and many vendors had multiple APIs. Later the industry came up with a soap based standard called ONVIF, but it was not conrete enough and we again had to integrate the cameras one by one. 😊Deepa Goyal

Deepa Goyal

Building great products, one sprint at a time.

Mar 10, 2022

I am sure Camera APIs will also evolve with the buzz around IoT. Miki Szeles

Miki Szeles

Everything related to test automation

Mar 10, 2022

Well we will see. In my opinion using soap instead of REST was a bad decision. Deepa Goyal 😊