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Liberating the API

Economy with

Scale-Free Networks

Mike Amundsen

CA Technologies

@mamund

I come as a messenger…

… and the news is not so good…

SCALE-POCALYPSE!

Wait, I’m getting ahead of myself…

1998

East Lansing, Michigan, USA

East Lansing, Michigan, USA

1973

Stanford, California, USA

Stanford, California, USA

1994

“Jerry’s Guide to the

World Wide Web”

Stanford, California, USA

1998

"...due to rapid advance in technology and web

proliferation, creating a web search engine

today is very different from three years ago."

"...due to rapid advance in technology and web

proliferation, creating a web search engine

today is very different from three years ago."

“Free” as in “Scale-Free”

“A scale-free network is a network whose

degree distribution follows a power law."

“A scale-free network is a network whose

degree distribution follows a power law."

Have we forgotten so soon?

Hub Vulnerability

Hub Vulnerability

“Too big to fail.”

Does the power law

only apply to search?

What if we changed our model?

Yes, but can you make money

with this model?

Let’s re-imagine common hubs…

Advice for API providers…

Beware of the hub vulnerability problem

Explore node-based models

Empower users and reap the rewards

Advice for API consumers…

Is a node-based provider available?

Build client-based aggregators

Empower users and reap the rewards

Wait, I had a message, right?

Be a node and not a hub!

Liberating the API

Economy with

Scale-Free Networks

Mike Amundsen

CA Technologies

@mamund

http://g.mamund.com/apidays-sydney-2015