Last week I got an invite from SPIN Chennai for an event today organized by eWIT titled “Why API’s rule the world”. The speaker is a young software engineer & budding entrepreneur Swaathi Kakarla of Skcript, an enterprise compression company.
In the talk Swaathi spoke on her experience of designing APIs for their Skcript platform, key concerns when it comes to scaling, and some lessons learnt on how to run a API driven business model. She covered on how to encryption in your API interfaces and the need to use a Timestamp.
Encryption: Better safe than sorry – URL Body, Timestamp and Secret Key
API Design, API Concerns, and Business Model
If you interested in building your own APIs for your system, I will recommend you check Apigility, DeployD and REST API Tutorial.