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The API Platform
Summary
Gregory Brail discusses about APIs, what an API platform is, how the typical API call flows-security, authorization, authentication, caching, etc., and some of the challenges in using an API platform.
Bio
Gregory Brail is VP of Technology at Apigee. Prior to Apigee, Greg worked at BEA as technical lead for WebLogic JMS, and kicked off BEA's "Core Engine" initiative. Greg began his career developing custom middleware libraries for Citibank, and then spent his formative years with transaction-processing pioneers Transarc, with stops in between at IBM and TransactPlus.
About the conference
Software is changing the world; QCon aims to empower software development by facilitating the spread of knowledge and innovation in the enterprise software development community; to achieve this, QCon is organized as a practitioner-driven conference designed for people influencing innovation in their teams: team leads, architects, project managers, engineering directors.