API Driven Development

Increasingly the world of technology relies on APIs to get things done, but they're often bolted on to an existing product as an afterthought and offer limited functionality so that marketing can say "and yes, we have an API". I'll be talking about why building your APIs first and using them throughout your work helps you improve code reuse, generate usable documentation, provide amazing functionality to everybody and optimise your application; as well as how CodeIgniter helped us roll out this approach at the University of Lincoln.