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Videos

Videos that help us make sense of the API landscape that is emerging around us.

The Reality of API-Early and API-Aware Enterprises with Rosemary Missier

In this episode of Breaking Changes, Kin Lane sat down with Rosemary Missier, Director at Samvit Software Solutions. Rosemary shared her pragmatic views of the state of API operations across all of the enterprise operations she has worked on, revealing that most mainstream companies are still API-early, or just becoming API-aware, and have a lot of ground to cover and investment ahead when it comes to their API journey.

High Tech Agriculture in the Cannabis Industry with Ellis Smith

In this episode of Breaking Changes, Postman Chief Evangelist Kin Lane welcomes Ellis Smith to discuss the impact of technology on the cannabis industry, exploring how the controversial sector has transformed to be more like high-tech agriculture and manufacturing while challenging the counterculture reputation it has held for decades.

What is API-First?

API-first development is a development model in which applications are conceptualized and built by composing internal or external services delivered through APIs. An API-first company is an organization that has adopted the API-first development model.

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Frequently asked questions

Some of the questions that we hear regularly.

What is API Evangelist?
API Evangelist began as a research project in 2010, attempting to understand what was happening with web APIs. Over the years the blog has continued as the learning research playground for Kin Lane, the API Evangelist, and Chief Evangelist for Postman./

Recently, with a refresh of the blog, others are contributing. Pascal Heus has stepped up to help contributing some valuable thinking and storytelling around the intersection of data, standards, and API. The website runs 100% on GitHub, and anyone is welcome to submit a blog post.
What is an API?
An API is an application programming interface, used to connect online systems together and power web, mobile, device, network, and other types of applications. APIs have been around since the 60s, but the most recent era of web APIs began in 2000 with early pioneers like Salesforce, eBay, and Amazon.

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