Developer Experience and the future of Google APIs

1. Google, Developer Experience and
Discovery
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2. @adewale
www.oshineye.com/+
@ade_oshineye

4. The plug

5. Past
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6. Google’s mission
To organize the world’s information and make
it universally accessible and useful.
Online content Offline content
Billions of web pages Billions of items
becoming indexed
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7. Alerts Blogger Blog Search Book Search Buzz Calendar Checkout Code
Docs & Feedburner Froogle Gmail Google Labs
Directory Earth Finance
Spreadsheets
Google Reader Groups Images Local Maps Maps for Mobile Mobile News
Pack Picasa Scholar Talk Toolbar Translate SketchUp SMS
Specialized Video Web Accelerator Web Search YouTube
Searches
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8. How do people feel about GData?
http://blog.bolinfest.com/2011/05/gdata-i-cant-take-it-anymore.html 7

9. Present
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10. developerexperience.org
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http://www.flickr.com/photos/adewale_oshineye/4043310805

11. What is Developer Experience?
1 Apply UX techniques to developer-facing products.
2 Focus on the out-of-box experience.
3 Use convention over configuration.
4 Design away common problems. Don’t document workarounds.
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12. Caveats?
Old wine. New bottles.
Aspirational
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13. Join us
developerexperience.org
@devexpftw
#devexp
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14. Future
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15. Problems with GData?
Library drift
Atom + APP
Low usability
High start-up costs
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16. What is Discovery?
API description
Client-side introspection
Generated libraries 15

17. Discovery
JSONification
Discovery document
Default data format
Schema
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18. Discovery document
https://www.googleapis.com/discovery/v1/apis/buzz/v1/rest 17

19. Code sample: Buzz
http://code.google.com/p/google-api-python-client/source/browse/samples/buzz/buzz.py 18

20. OAuth2
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21. OAuth2 made simple
http://code.google.com/p/google-api-python-client/source/browse/samples/appengine_with_decorator/main.py 20

22. Client libraries for more languages
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23. Interactive API Explorer
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24. Unified APIs Console
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25. Why should you care?
1 Better #devexp
2 More libraries for more languages
3 Other people can play
4 Easier and faster development
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26. Thank You!
Questions?
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