Presentation from API Specification Conference 2019, Vancouver, October 15-17. This presentation surveys the new landscape of API protocols and specifications, and proposes some ideas that build on the robustness and maturity of the RESTful API ecosystem.

2. Overcoming RESTlessness
Matt McLarty, Global Leader of API Strategy
MuleSoft, a Salesforce company

3. About
• Global Leader, API Strategy,
MuleSoft
• API Academy alumnus
• O’Reilly SACon & API World
Program Advisory Boards
• Twitter: @mattmclartybc

5. Paul Prescod

6. Tim Bray

8. REST
vs.
vs.
vs.

9. Web APIs
JS web apps
k8s service mesh
Event-based

10. RESTful API Ecosystem
API Management
Language Support Developer Tooling
Reference
Implementations
Architecture &
Design Practices

11. REST and Innovation

12. Post-REST?
Post-Web

13. https://blogs.mulesoft.com/dev/microservices-dev/microservices-api-interaction-queries-commands-events/
API Interactions
Queries
?
Commands
!
Events
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14. API Metadata
GraphQL
Schema
Protocol
Buffers

15. API Meta-metadata
Microservice design canvas

16. Consuming APIs through Meta-metadata
Find API
options
Assess
functional
fit
Study
technical
details
Identify
client
library
Consume
API
metadata
Find API
options
Assess
functional fit
Consume API
meta-metadata

17. In summary…
• New protocols complement REST
• They should strive for REST’s robustness
• The new API frontier is the layer above the
protocols

18. Thank you!