#APIdays "Saving Hackathons" by Swift
Channel: apidays
Date: 2012-12-25

Meet Swift, developer evangelist at-large for SendGrid and home-grown New York hacker.  During the past 3 years, he has been to nearly 100 hackathons, playing every role from participant to organizer. Swift is also one of the founders of Hacker League, the platform for hackathons. Hacker League has powered nearly 140 hackathons all over the world in the past year.  Swift is also a former engineer at Crowdtap and an alumni of Rutgers University.

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Web APIs are a unique opprtunity for companies, governments and developers to either better organize the governance of their IT into a scalable and flexible model, either leverage a complete ecosystem around the organization, exchanging data through the web for trillion of applications on billion devices.

Because each civilization has been described by the way it communicates and make exchanges, API are the beginning of a programmable civilization.

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