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Practical Insights when Designing an API from Scratch
Paul Glavich discusses design decisions to be made when building a new API regarding versioning, hypermedia usage, authentication and other aspects.
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API Design Methodology
Mike Amundsen describes a methodology for designing Web APIs (based on the book "RESTful Web APIs") that allows to map key aspects of a business into a usable, scalable, and flexible interface.
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Building Distributed Systems with Apache Mesos
Benjamin Hindman discusses Apache Mesos, focusing on the Mesos API and how the primitives provided by Mesos can make it easier to build new stateful services and frameworks.
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Hack Your API First
Troy Hunt explain how to discover the vulnerabilities of one’s own APIs, identifying common security anti-patterns.
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Microservices and the Art of Taming the Dependency Hell Monster
Michael Bryzek presents lessons learned building an expansive microservice architecture at Gilt - an organization with 1500 git repositories and over 400 individual applications.
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The Programmable World with APIs & Containers
Kin Lane discusses the opportunities of deploying high value, re-mixable APIs, using Docker.
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The Road to JSON API 1.0
Steve Klabnik discusses how the JSON API (jsonapi.org) helps building APIs in JSON, and the process of bringing the standard to the 1.0 release.
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The Changing Face of Communications: IoT, REST, & Reactive
Todd Montgomery explores questions related to WebSocket, HTTP/2, CoAP, MQTT, XMPP, and the way these protocols change how services communicate.
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Extending Jobs to Speed up Eclipse
Thirumala Reddy Mutchukota presents the Eclipse Job Groups API, its uses and sample implementations to parallelize lengthy operations in Eclipse.
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APIs for Open Source Hardware
Justin Mclean introduces the Open Source Hardware, its communication protocols (RF, ZigBee, WiFi, Bluetooth) and the software/API layer (HTTP, WebSockets, Can Bus, COAPI and MQTT) used.
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Liberating the API Economy with Scale-Free Networks
Mike Amundsen explores the "Scale-Free" (long tail) rule of complex systems and how it affect the producing and consuming of web APIs.
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Hybris-as-a-Service: A Microservices Architecture in Action
Andrea Stubbe explains how to create cloud applications with microservices using Hybris’ platform and API.