Why You As A Developer Must Care About Managing Your APIs on Web Rush #287

Chris Noring talks with us about why web APIs should be important to developers, how people should manage their APIs, working without a database, do smaller APIs need a load balancer, the importance of security for your APIs, and why the developer experience is important for API management.

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Host(s):

• John Papa @John_Papa
• Ward Bell @WardBell
• Dan Wahlin @DanWahlin
• Craig Shoemaker @craigshoemaker

Guest:

• Chris Noring @chris_noring

Recording date: June 27, 2024

Brought to you by

• AG Grid

• IdeaBlade

Resources:

• Chris on GitHub
• Chris on LinkedIn
• Chris on YouTube
• Softchris Blog
• Web API
• Load balancing APIs
• How to Validate a Business Idea
• API debounce
• Designing Azure Functions for identical input
• API Rate Limiting - Everything you need to know
• Polyfill.io - what you need to know
• Azure API Management - Overview and key concepts | Microsoft Learn
• API Management sample including Generative AI, genai-gateway-apim/README.md at main · Azure-Samples/genai-gateway-apim (github.com)
• Azure API Center: Centralize API Management for Better Discovery and Governance
• Introduction to Azure API Center - Training | Microsoft Learn

Timejumps

• 01:09 Introducing Chris Noring
• 03:06 What is a web API developer?
• 07:24 Sponsor: Ag Grid
• 08:28 How should people manage their APIs?
• 13:38 Have you tried working without a database?
• 17:24 Is load balancing needed on smaller APIs?
• 21:44 Sponsor: IdeaBlade
• 22:37 The importance of API security
• 27:22 Why is developer experience that API management could help with?
• 37:44 Final thoughts

Podcast editing on this episode done by Chris Enns of Lemon Productions.