Announcement

API Codex is an information resource and education portal designed to help businesses, developers and designers learn and share more about how to create and manage API’s. The vendor-neutral curated site, launched in January of 2014, captures the best of the best published material produced on APIs (Application Programming Interfaces). API Codex is intended to provide a broad spectrum of topics from how to build and manage APIs, to crafting a successful API strategy, instituting best practices or selecting an appropriate revenue model. Material can be technical, academic or business oriented, and will address both public and private APIs. The beta collection allows community feedback and will be built out over time, eventually including community provided content and rankings. API Codex is not product oriented. The technology and business opportunities APIs present are many, and the market opportunity high. But even though the overall value for developers and businesses is clear, it is early stage and development around APIs can be tricky. API Codex is designed to help both the creators of APIs and the developers who consume them realize benefits faster by sharing learning, ideas, use cases, and best practices. API Codex joins API Commons and API Strategy & Practice Conferences as 3scale-backed, vendor-neutral resources for the API industry. API Commons launched in November of 2013 in partnership with Kin Lane of API Evangelist. It is dedicated to allowing developers to share and reuse both public and private APIs under creative common licenses without legal concern. The API Strategy & Practice Conference series, also co-organized by 3scale and API Evangelist offers a unique program of keynotes, panels and themed sessions to provide key insights into the potential of APIs, best practices, and how to craft a successful API strategy. Also vendor neutral, the conference series focuses on what works for API developers and consumers alike by bringing the leaders together in one forum. In it’s second year, the fourth conference will be held in March 2014 in Amsterdam.