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Redesigning PayPal APIs for Scale and Simplicity
Deepak Nadig, Praveen Alavilli present how PayPal redesigned its APIs based on lessons learnt developing their services in over 14 years, and the principles, patterns and anti-patterns used.
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What Makes a Great API?
John Musser explains how to transform a good API into a great one based on his experience with thousands of APIs at ProgrammableWeb and API Science.
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API Security and Federation Patterns
The role of API management infrastructure in API Security, API Access Control and API Federation and its interaction with enterprise infrastructure, social identity and application developers.
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Evolution of the Netflix API
Ben Christensen describes Netflix API's evolution to a web service platform serving all devices and users, the challenges met in operations, deployment, performance, fault-tolerance, and innovation.
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RESTful Groovy
Kyle Boon reviews 3 frameworks for building RESTful WS- Grails, Dropwizard and Ratpack-, comparing their code readability, maintainability, deployment, metrics collection, scalability and testability.
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The Magic Behind Enterprise Apps: How to Expose Reliable, Scalable and Secure Enterprise APIs?
Blake Dournaee covers the often forgotten back-end architecture for mobile apps which should expose cross-platform APIs to mitigate some of the effects of mobile O/S fragmentation.
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Spock: Soup to Nuts
Zan Thrash introduces Spock, a Grails testing framework that includes mocking, parameterized tests and an extension API.
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Building APIs with Grails
Bobby Warner discusses the pros and cons of the available options that Grails developers have for creating RESTful APIs.
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The Evolution of Windows: WinRT
Raymond Chen tells the story of Windows’ API evolution from the beginning up to its latest version, WinRT.
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Enabling Cloud Services with Programmability
Chris White shares Riverbed’s experience using REST across multiple products, being integrated with Python, JavaScript, OpenStack, Puppet, Django, jQuery, and other technologies.
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Rebuilding Your Engine at 200 Miles per Hour
Michael Brunton-Spall shares his experience re-architect The Guardian’ Content API from a system based on Solr to a message queue cloud service based upon Elastic Search, without any downtime.
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Functional Reactive Programming in the Netflix API
Ben Christensen explains how Netflix optimizes server’s interaction with more than 800 client devices by creating customized concurrent service endpoints with RxJava and Hystrix.