How the Fastest Growing Companies Develop Their Public API

Explore the strategies and best practices employed by rapidly growing companies in developing their public APIs in this conference talk from NDC London 2022. Discover why leading API companies prefer API keys over JWT, and learn how the API journey evolves as organizations scale from startups to large corporations. Gain insights into essential elements for early-stage API development and understand the challenges that arise with growth. Examine various options and tools available to engineers for addressing these issues. Drawing from years of experience building APIs and tooling at Microsoft, Facebook, and Stripe, the speaker provides valuable answers to these questions and more, offering a comprehensive look at modern API development practices.