Latest advances in the Google APIs platform
summary
Describes a move to a new Google APIs platform that adds partial operations (field selection and partial updates), shifts from XML-to-JSON (originally XML masquerading as JSON), and supports JSON-RPC alongside REST so imperative actions like rotate can be sent without extra round trips. A machine-readable discovery document drives automatic client-library generation, an API Console exposes quota/logging/auth, and the generated clients keep up with API changes though older APIs require migration.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Google APIs platform challenges
- 2:30XML to JSON and partial ops
- 9:41REST limits and JSON RPC
- 14:25Client library maintenance issues
- 18:27Discovery documents evolution
- 23:20Dynamic client generation
- 27:54API console and auth improvements
- 30:28API platform consolidation
- 34:09Future of dynamic generation
- 36:40Pricing and API ecosystem
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