Coursera, Inc.
Automated batch application programming interfaces

Abstract:

In one general aspect, a method for rendering a web page can include receiving, from an interactive web application executing on a computing device, a plurality of application programming interface (API) calls for information and data for including in the rendering of the web page by the interactive web application, determining, for each of the plurality of API calls, whether an API call satisfies at least one criterion, storing, in a memory included on a computing device, an API call for inclusion in a batch of API calls if the API call satisfies the at least one criterion, and sending, in a single API call, the batch of API calls stored in the memory, the sending based on an occurrence of an event in the computing device.