Smarter APIs
Nylas predicts that APIs will need to become “smarter.” Intelligence can be achieved through data parsing, predictive analytics, and what the company calls “smart composition,” which means allowing developers to use any GPT they want.
According to Nassimi, and reduce their coding. He believes that real intelligence is when you use these tools to give users something they didn’t even know they needed, but once they saw it, they said, “Yeah, I need to implement that in my platform.”
“We can use things like parsing. Look, you have a lot of email data going through your system. Of course, we give you the emails, but we can also give you what’s in the emails. If someone buys something, we can give you the data that’s in the receipt, tell you what they ordered, and give you images of the things they ordered. We can give you all of that in a structured way,” Nassimi explains.
Security and Improving Developer Experience
Modern APIs also need to be designed with china mobile database in mind, especially given that API hacks are “extremely common,” Nassimi notes.
“Security is determined by several factors,” he says. “Obviously, there’s the code you write, but there’s also the processes you put in place, and there’s the operations — essentially, how well you follow those processes. The culture within will determine how well you do all three of those things.”
Security is easy to ignore, he says, until a developer sees the consequences of not doing so. “Then it becomes a very high priority for the rest of their life,” Nassimi says.
Finally, Nylas prioritizes the developer experience in its requirements for a modern API. Since all of its customers end up building front-end integrations, one way it has improved the developer experience has been to provide front-end components that provide an email preview or a collapsed view of a conversation. It also offers a scheduler so that developers can integrate Calendly-like capabilities into their apps, Nassimi says.