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This article is part of the Key Research Findings from the DZone Guide to API Management: Comparative Views of Real-World Design.

Introduction

For this year’s API Management Guide Survey, we received 1,287 responses with a 55% completion rate. Based on these responses, we’ve compiled a quick article on the use of RESTful APIs and the industry trends surrounding JSON, XML, and YAML.  https://goo.gl/huAtw8

API definitions like OpenAPI and Postman Collections help us document, map out, and better understand the API world around us. The API integration environment, Postman, has significantly shifted the landscape when it comes to how we develop and integrate with APIs. The desktop API tool allows you to connect with any common web API, then organize and save them as Postman Collections — making any API definition a machine-readable, portable document that you can share with others.

We spend a lot of time searching for, working with, and publishing Postman Collections. So we are always intrigued when we come across interesting uses of the API definition format. Recently, we came across an aggregate mapping and location Postman Collection that spans multiple APIs: https://goo.gl/2tZ3GE

In this episode of the Yet Podcast, you’ll hear from Senior Learning Experience Designer Melissa Milloway. Mel has been working in the corporate learning space for over seven years and is an early xAPI enthusiast. Through her independent projects and instructional design experience in industries from pharmaceuticals to real estate to e-commerce, she has been part of designing many different projects that leverage xAPI.

In this conversation, we’ll discuss how she began her xAPI journey and get some insight into the ways she sees xAPI supporting instructional designers when it comes to measuring what’s working, what’s not, and connecting that work to impact. https://goo.gl/vBwmQX