API World 2018

Of course, all IoThings need APIs – otherwise, they'd just be Things. One of the major benefits of IoT is that the interface and device are separated – you don’t need to build a physical keyboard interface into the device to control the Thing. Now, you can use mobile and Web technology to control and monitor devices so how well you designing and developing your mobile application APIs becomes even more important. Attendees will learn: * The importance of segmenting your architecture * When to build a “generic” interface that considers the broad set of customers that might access the app or device vs a narrowly-focused API that serves a device-specific function * How to integrate segmented APIs into a coherent system * How to implement logging in order to understand the function and performance of segmented architectures * Some of the pitfalls of device-specific APIs and how to avoid them