Web Rush

Episode 287: Why You As A Developer Must Care About Managing Your APIs

Episode Summary

Chris Noring talks with us about why web APIs should be important to developers, how people should manage their APIs, working without a database, do smaller APIs need a load balancer, the importance of security for your APIs, and why the developer experience is important for API management.

Episode Notes

Host(s):

• John Papa @John_Papa
• Ward Bell @WardBell
• Dan Wahlin @DanWahlin
• Craig Shoemaker @craigshoemaker

Guest:

• Chris Noring @chris_noring

Recording date: June 27, 2024

Brought to you by

• AG Grid

  

• IdeaBlade

Resources:

• Chris on GitHub
• Chris on LinkedIn
• Chris on YouTube
• Softchris Blog
• Web API
• Load balancing APIs
• How to Validate a Business Idea
• API debounce
• Designing Azure Functions for identical input
• API Rate Limiting - Everything you need to know
• Polyfill.io - what you need to know
• Azure API Management - Overview and key concepts | Microsoft Learn
• API Management sample including Generative AI, genai-gateway-apim/README.md at main · Azure-Samples/genai-gateway-apim (github.com)
• Azure API Center: Centralize API Management for Better Discovery and Governance
• Introduction to Azure API Center - Training | Microsoft Learn

Timejumps

• 01:09 Introducing Chris Noring
• 03:06 What is a web API developer?
• 07:24 Sponsor: Ag Grid
• 08:28 How should people manage their APIs?
• 13:38 Have you tried working without a database?
• 17:24 Is load balancing needed on smaller APIs?
• 21:44 Sponsor: IdeaBlade
• 22:37 The importance of API security
• 27:22 Why is developer experience that API management could help with?
• 37:44 Final thoughts

Podcast editing on this episode done by Chris Enns of Lemon Productions.