APIs at ‘Internet of Things’ Hackathons By @Axway | @ThingsExpo [#IoT]

According to Pardalis, Salesforce employed the most successful method of exposing their APIs at the event, lessening security measures, and including a visual platform that greatly aided in onboarding developers so that direct calls via REST was not necessary. Now, reading between the lines, I know what is meant here by "lessening security measures". For some APIs, it can be difficult to get started with OAuth credentials or API Keys. That's why it's important that, right in the API Portal, you allow developers to obtain API Key and, just as importantly, tee up and test API calls within active API documentation. Below we see an example of this in action. As a developer who wants to use an API, I can test with API Key based security just as easily as without (so no need to lessen security measures)

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