Imgur’s API exposes the entire Imgur infrastructure via a standardized programmatic interface. Using Imgur’s API, you can do just about anything you can do on imgur.com, while using your programming language of choice.
The Imgur API is a RESTful API based on HTTP requests and XML or JSON responses. If you’re familiar with the APIs of Twitter, Amazon’s S3, del.icio.us, or a host of other web services, you’ll feel right at home.
This version of the API, version 3, uses OAuth 2.0. This means that all requests will need to be encrypted and sent via SSL/TSL to https://. It also means that you need to register your application, even if you aren’t allowing users to login.
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Kii Cloud Opens Doors For Mobile Developer Platform With 25 Million End Users
MBaaS is more often a way to cater to developers. The idea here is that developers program the app and push it out to Kii Cloud without having to build their own servers and back end. At the crux of it, Kii sells simplicity and scale through the APIs and SDKs that use object database technology originally developed as an open source project by db4objects. Its ad network and distribution across Japan, Korea and China give it significant reach.
via Kii Cloud Opens Doors For Mobile Developer Platform With 25 Million End Users | TechCrunch.
MBaaS = Mobile back end as a service
From: Mobile Backend as a Service Roundup and the Future of Web APIs
To help me monitor the MBaaS market I spent some time rounding up as many of the providers as I could, and so far I’ve found 24 of them:
Changes coming in Version 1.1 of the Twitter API | Twitter Developers
In the coming weeks we will release version 1.1 of the Twitter API. To help you plan ahead, we’re announcing these changes now, before the new version of the API is available. Changes will include:
- required authentication on every API endpoint
- a new per-endpoint rate-limiting methodology
- changes to our Developer Rules of the Road, especially around applications that are traditional Twitter clients.
via Changes coming in Version 1.1 of the Twitter API | Twitter Developers.
Most individual API endpoints will be rate limited at 60 calls per hour per-endpoint. Based on analysis of current use of our API, this rate limit will be well above the needs of most applications built against the Twitter API, while protecting our systems from abusive applications.
Microsoft Azure vs. Amazon Web Services: Which is Best For You?
But there are a couple of other possibilities. Some open-source wrapper APIs under construction claim to support a whole set of clouds. In fact, here’s one on Sourceforge; I haven’t personally tried it and can’t vouch for it in any way, except to say that it’s just one example of a handful out there (do a Google search).
I suspect we’re going to see more of these open-source APIs that target multiple vendors. With one of those, you can potentially use any number of clouds. As for the APIs themselves—if you’re not worried about vendor lock-in, then both Amazon’s and Microsoft’s platforms are actually pretty easy to use and are in many ways quite similar. I personally rank them both about equal in programmability.
via Microsoft Azure vs. Amazon Web Services: Which is Best For You?.
The MySQL Cluster API Developer Guide
This guide provides information for developers wishing to develop applications against MySQL Cluster. Application interfaces covered include the low-level C++-language NDB API for the MySQL NDBCLUSTER storage engine, the C-language MGM API for communicating with and controlling MySQL Cluster management servers, and the MySQL Cluster Connector for Java, which is a a collection of Java APIs introduced in MySQL Cluster NDB 7.1 for writing applications against MySQL Cluster, including JDBC, JPA, and ClusterJ.