Mike Amundsen's, Director API Architecture at CA Technologies, Keynote from API Strategy and Practice Conference 2014 Here's a link to the full text of Mike's talk: http://g.mamund.com/apistrat2014-talk APIs as both an ecosystem and an economy are at a crossroads. The last few years have shown continued growth in both providers and consumers and, it’s easy to see Moore’s Law in effect in the API Ecosystem. However, to sustain this level of exponential growth, this level of scaling in the ecosystem, we need to come up with ways to also scale the API Economy. All indications are demand will continue to grow. But hardly a day goes by when we don’t see evidence that the API economy the ‘engine of execution’ is buckling under the strain. This is the logical outcome of a system over-taxed, under-powered, and inadequate to the task. Demand is outstripping supply and the system can’t keep up. The way to solve this problem is to start thinking in new ways and this talk is an attempt to get us to do that; to kick-start the creative process.

1. Self-Replication, Strandbeest, and
the Game of Life.
What John von Neumann, Theo Jansen,
and John Conway
can tell us about scaling the
API Economy.
Mike Amundsen
Director of Architecture,
API Academy – CA Technologies
@mamund

6. Outages, security breach, theft

7. Supply and demand

8. kickstart

9. Looking back

10. roadblock

12. "I just had to take the hypertext idea and
connect it to the Transmission Control Protocol
and domain name system ideas and—ta-da!—
the World Wide Web." - Tim Berners-Lee

50. roadblock

61. “This month we consider Conway's latest
brainchild, a fantastic solitaire pastime he calls
‘life’” - Martin Gardner, 1970

63. 1. Survivals:
Every counter with two or three neighboring
counters survives for the next generation.
2. Deaths:
Each counter with four or more neighbors dies (is
removed) from overpopulation. Every counter with
one neighbor or none dies from isolation.
3. Births:
Each empty cell adjacent to exactly three neighbors-
-no more, no fewer--is a birth cell. A counter is
placed on it at the next move.

65. “For long-lived populations Conway sometimes
uses a PDP-7 computer with a screen on which
he can observe the changes.”
- Martin Gardner, 1970

82. "I started with the idea that I could make wind-
powered ‘animals’ that would live on the beach
and build up the dunes to save us from rising sea
levels in the coming century." - Theo Jansen

91. "The inherited trashing movements were copied
and, mixed with mutations, distributed to a
random subsequent generation of more than
200 creatures." - Theo Jansen.

96. And so…

114. "As we gain more data, how much better does
our system get? It’s still improving—but we are
getting to the point where we get less benefit
than we did in the past.” - Peter Norvig.

131. NO CODE

133. “The maze is a metaphor for hypermedia
applications in general.” – Leonard Richardson.

142. "A journey of a thousand miles begins
with a single step." - Lao-tzu

146. Self-Replication, Strandbeest, and
the Game of Life.
What John von Neumann, Theo Jansen,
and John Conway
can tell us about scaling the
API Economy.
http://g.mamund.com/apistrat2014-talk
Mike Amundsen
Director of Architecture,
API Academy – CA Technologies
@mamund