The API Lifecycle

This article is an excerpt from the book Enterprise API Management written by Luis Weir. This book explores the architectural decisions, implementation patterns, and management practices for successful enterprise APIs. This article covers essential processes and methods required throughout the entire API life cycle. This cycle is the main or…

What is an API? - Video for Programming Students

Many of API List's users are students that are referred to the site in their CS classes when studying about APIs.  We know it can be hard to understand what an API is  when first learning about it, I've found this video that is just 9 minutes short, and has…

#30 Days Of Growth

As a developer the less enjoyable part of running a site is to stop coding and do actual "marketing", like sending "cold" emails to get interviews, tweet about the improvements we've made, or write new blog posts or guest posts on other sites. Starting tomorrow I decided together with one…

Learn about the first Fixathon: A hackaton to help fix the climate

Today we are excited to feature an interview with Steven (@shylands) from Impact Makers, about how he decided to start a hackaton focused on solving climate change problems. Please tell us a bit about yourself and what is The Climate Fixathon?For most of my career, my main focus has…

Introducing API List 2.0

TL;DR: A complete redesign, a new blog, company pages,  collections, comments and upvotes, Algolia search and more. API List started in 2017 as a spreadsheet and then a simple site. Initially it had about ~100 APIs that were submitted manually by me, then people started to contribute and it…