My API Life Cycle Research From Design To Deprecation

It always makes me smile, when I talk to someone about one or many areas of my API research, sharing how I conduct my work, and they are surprised to find how many areas I track on. My home page has always been a doorway to my research, and I try to keep this front door as open as possible, providing easy access to my more mature areas like API management, all the way to my newer areas like how bots are using APIs.

From time to time, I like to publish my API life cycle research to an individual blog post, which I guess puts my home page, the doorway to my research into my readers Twitter stream, and feed reader. Here is a list of my current research for April 2016, from design to deprecation.

Design {"View Research"}
Hypermedia {"View Research"}
Definitions {"View Research"}
Domain Name System (DNS) {"View Research"}
Deployment {"View Research"}
Virtualization {"View Research"}
Containers {"View Research"}
Serverless {"View Research"}
Management {"View Research"}
Getting started {"View Research"}
Documentation {"View Research"}
Frequently Asked Questions {"View Research"}
Support {"View Research"}
Roadmap {"View Research"}
Issues {"View Research"}
Change Log {"View Research"}
Monitoring {"View Research"}
Testing {"View Research"}
Performance {"View Research"}
Authentication {"View Research"}
Encryption {"View Research"}
Security {"View Research"}
Terms of Services (TOS) {"View Research"}
Privacy {"View Research"}
Licensing {"View Research"}
Branding {"View Research"}
Regulation {"View Research"}
Patents {"View Research"}
Discovery {"View Research"}
Client {"View Research"}
Command Line Interface (CLI) {"View Research"}
Bots {"View Research"}
Integrated Development Environment (IDE) {"View Research"}
Software Development Kit (SDK) {"View Research"}
Embeddable {"View Research"}
Visualization {"View Research"}
Webhooks {"View Research"}
Logging {"View Research"}
Aggregation {"View Research"}
Scraping {"View Research"}
Reciprocity {"View Research"}
Orchestration {"View Research"}
Real-Time {"View Research"}
Voice {"View Research"}
Spreadsheets {"View Research"}
Monetization {"View Research"}
Plans {"View Research"}
Partners {"View Research"}
Evangelism {"View Research"}
Deprecation {"View Research"}

I am constantly working to improve my research, organizing more of the organizations who are doing interesting things, the tooling that is being deployed, and relevant news from across the area. I use all this research, to fuel my analysis, and drive my lists of common building blocks, which I include in my guides, blueprints, and other white papers and tutorials that I produce.

I am currently reworking all the PDF guides for each research area, updating the content, as well as the layout to use my newer minimalist guide format. As each one comes off the assembly line, I will add to its respective research area, and publish an icon + link on the home page of API Evangelist--so check back regularly. If there is any specific area you'd like to see get more attention, always let me know, and I'll see what I can do.