Do Users Love Your API? Developer-focused API design
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A few months after launching v2.0 of MailChimp’s API, it was already falling short of our expectations. In every area, problems were slowing our users down and getting in their way. After finding our attempts to fix the problems uninspiring, we decided to start over.
In this workshop we’ll walk you through our processes (from evaluation of v2.0 through implementation of v3.0) and share the lessons we learned while trying to fix an API that serves more than a billion requests per month. Join us for this crash course on building an API optimized for developer happiness.
Before you attend this lab
For this lab you'll only need something to jot down notes. Your laptop or pen and paper. Everything else will be provided, no Wi-Fi connection will be necessary.
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Pete Holiday is a Lead Engineer at MailChimp where his primary responsibilities are development and maintenance of the API, playing on the company softball team, and posting cute animal GIFs in chat. He’s been programming for more than 20 years and his personal programming mantra is “how did this code ever work?” Pete and his fiancé live in Atlanta with their two dogs, who would absolutely love to lick your face.
Kate Harlan is about to graduate from Georgia Tech, but she also works as an intern on the dev team at MailChimp. She's a little too excited about the prospect of working there full time. When she isn't there, she loves surrounding herself with purple things, doing LGBT and feminist advocacy, solving puzzles, and watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Orphan Black.
Nate Ranson has been at MailChimp for 4 years and worked a in a variety of roles. He's lived in metro Atlanta for the last 30 years and currently resides in Marietta with his wife and their pitbull puppy, Pogi.