HumanTalks Paris

Move fast don't break your API

10 minutes

Brian Krausz, API engineer at Stripe and head of their Marketplaces product, discusses how to build and scale an API from the inside out.Most of what you see in an API like Stripe's is the results: a well-organized, consistent, well-documented product. However, a lot goes on under the hood to ensure that as Stripe grows the product stays that way. Brian will talk about some of the core philosophies and abstractions Stripe uses to keep their API easy to use while still iterating quickly