Organizations and the whole society are living a structural change introducing the notion of "platform". Software and APIs are the first steps of this change, making it possible. They are the visible signs of this transformation. As software developers, we are the ones having these powerful tools in our hands.

4. Aline Paponaud, CTO at
Software developer
Building a Platform
@bootis

9. Dis moi quelle est ta stack, je te dirai qui tu es

11. Application Program Interface

13. Service:
GET GetWeatherByUserAndCity?u=audrey&c=rennes
POST FindImage {"query" = …}
Resource:
GET weather?u=audrey&c=rennes
GET nodes/5678/topics/butterflies/images
PUT images {"topic":"butterflies", "imageid":"777"}

14. • Uniform access to identified resources
• Client-cache
• Stateless
• Hypermedia

17. Versioning
Deprecation of some public APIs
Monitoring tools
« meta » - APIs
An evolution of www?

19. This is where we fill the Buzzword Bingo

20. “I want SAAS software.
It’s so Silicon Valley.”
Manu, cool entrepreneur

21. “Il faut ubériser
<insert business case here>”
Jean-Michel, innovation manager

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29. Software in a dispatching role…
… a middle management role!?

31. Even marketers get to know what it is!

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36. How can my business case become a platform?

39. 1. Vision
2. Team
3. Technology
4. Resources
5. Customers
6. Back-end
7. Front-ends

40. Image Source: http://www.kolibree.com/fr

47. 1. Vision 
2. Team 
3. Technology 
4. Resources 
5. Customers 
6. Back-end 
7. Front-ends 

49. • R. Fielding, Architectural Styles and the Design of Network-based Software Architectures, 2000
• Digital ML, Why You Must Respond To The API Economy, 2014
• G. Bertholet, Petites choses à *absolument* connaître sur les métrics et le business-model SaaS,
2013
• T. R. Eisenmann et al, Strategies for two-sided markets, 2006
• A. Lele et al, Innovation is Eating Consumer Finance, 2015
• K.Lane, APIs are just the next step in the evolution of the Web, 2015
• G. Laforge, One API, Many Facades?, InfoQ, March 13, 2016
Full references list available on request