Oh the things you can do… with an API!

Most successful companies on the web today from Amazon to Dropbox to Google to Twitter expose some kind of API to their users to write their own applications and interact with their application programmatically. They expose an even deeper API for their internal teams.

Even Dries recognizes the importance of being able to output data in different formats and now Drupal has an awesome
Web Services and Context Core Initiative

With Drupal, your site doesn't have to be big, or small, or even cool to have an API. It just has to be running Drupal! (So by definition it would be cool anyways).

In this session we'll delve into a discussion of APIs built using the Services Module. We'll talk about how internal APIs can be leveraged to transform your website into an SOA application and how external APIs can bring more adoption and flexibility to your online application. We'll talk about the definition of a true RESTful API and how to design your APIs to conform to those principles as well as the business logic of your website.

Also a hidden easter egg, we'll talk about how you can document it while typing minimal documentation.

Finally, at the end, we'll talk about the structure of the services module and how it works on the inside and at the end of the session we'll take a look at how to define your APIs in code!