How should we build signup and login for apps to increase app conversion? It needs to be simple. End-users tend to shy away from tedious onboarding processes or only get halfway through before they give up. How do some of
Digital Ecosystems – Talk at API Days Paris 2018
Digital Ecosystems – Fueled by APIsDon’t just publish APIs. Focus on creating an ecosystem with your APIs. API Days Paris 2018 https://www.apidays.co/parisDecember 11 & 12, 2018 | Paris Slides
Spotify API – How to get an OAuth Access Token
In this week’s episode, I review the Spotify API – more specifically the OAuth capability. My goal: get an OAuth Access Token for my app, so I can call the API. To achieve this goal, I will go to the
Spotify API – How to get a Playlist
In this week’s episode, I review the Spotify API. My goal: get a list of all the songs in a given Spotify playlist. To achieve this goal, I will go to the dev portal, learn about the API, use the
How to use the Image Search API of unsplash.com (API-Review Series)
In this week’s episode, I review the Image Search API of unsplash.com. In this episode, you can discover, what Image Search APIs can do for you, and how to call an Image Search API from a node.js application. Don’t miss
API-Review Series: How to use a GeoLocation API
In this week’s episode, I review the IP to GeoLocation API from ip-api.com. In this episode, you can discover, what IP to GeoLocation APIs can do for you, and how to call an API from a node.js application. Don’t miss
API-Review Series: What makes a great API?
In this new api-university.com youtube series, I want to figure out, what makes a great API with a great developer experience. And the best way to find out is to actually pick a couple of APIs, and try to use
AWS AppSync Use Cases
Let’s explore some common use cases for AWS AppSync, where AWS AppSync can help to build GraphQL APIs fast. Simple Data-Centric GraphQL API A typical use-case for AppSync is providing a data-centric API to an existing data source. The advantage
Building GraphQL APIs with AWS AppSync
GraphQL is great but requires the manual installation and maintenance of software infrastructure components, tedious configuration, and some manual tweaking. And when running a productive GraphQL system, you need to find a way to scale the system up and down
Find your way in AppSync – AWS AppSync Architecture
AWS AppSync is a fully-managed serverless GraphQL infrastructure. Because it runs on a serverless, managed infrastructure, it scales automatically and does not require any manual installation nor any maintenance. Thus, AppSync allows us to get started quickly without any impediments.