World Congress 2023 • Oct 6, 2023

Awful APIs: A History Lesson in Industry Mistakes and Mishaps

James Seconde

Developers fled SOAP for REST, only to create deeply nested GraphQL chaos. Explore the hilariously cyclical history of APIs that finally led us back to sending raw HTML.

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Evolution of API interfaces toward declarative data fetching

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