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By daniel_jacobson, April 8, 2014 3:03 pm

This presentation was originally given at the following API Meetup in SF on April 8, 2014.

Most API providers focus on solving all three of the key challenges for APIs: data gathering, data formatting and data delivery. All three of these functions are critical for the success of an API, however, not all should be solved by the API provider. Rather, the API consumers have a strong, vested interest in the formatting and delivery. As a result, API design should be addressed based on the true separation of concerns between the needs of the API provider and the various API consumers.

This presentation goes into the separation of concerns. It also goes into depth in how Netflix has solved for this problem through a very different approach to API design.