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API Design Aesthetics
Col Perks looks at API design as a style, considering the qualities that might make an API beautiful and providing real world examples.
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Hypermedia API Architectural Patterns
Gareth Evans and Rick Mugridge share the patterns that emerged while developing hypermedia APIs for various companies over time.
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Panel: IBM, Westpac, Certus, and Enable Discuss APIs and Microservices
Dennis Ashby moderates a panel discussing the role of APIs in building microservices and the challenges to be overcome.
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Stored Procedures as a Service
Abhishek Tiwari discusses how to use stored procedures to create a fast-track API transformation program on top of legacy systems,migrating business logic into a service tier,one store proc at a time
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API Specification Shootout
Justin Wood and Giovanni Vigorrelli compare and contrast RAML and Swagger, do a round up of the other specifications languages, and present some conclusions.
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Machine Learning Your Way to Smarter API Error Responses
Steven Cooper discusses using machine learning to understand malformed API requests to not only respond with a best fit response, but capture the user errors for future responses.
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Hypermedia Myths and Misconceptions
Glenn Block discusses the truth and myth beyond some beliefs: the web was built for hypermedia, there is no REST without hypermedia, hypermedia is the magic cure for all API ills, etc.
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DDD & REST - Domain Driven APIs for the Web
Oliver Gierke explores some commonalities of Domain Driven Design and REST, and how to create REST APIs that are driven by the domain.
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Publish, Secure, and Monitor APIs with Cloud Foundry Route Services
Ed Anuff and Carlos Eberhardt talk about the experience building one of the first Service Brokers to leverage route services with Apigee quota enforcement, spike arrests, and content caching.
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No REST - Architecting Real-Time Bulk Async APIs
Michael Uzquiano talks about how to scale an API to accept many items, how to evolve the Evolution of ReST over HTTP to transactional, asynchronous bulk operations and using polling.
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ESPN Next Generation APIs Powering Web, Mobile, TV
Manny Pelarinos talks about the tension of optimizing APIs for different experiences, while supporting hundreds of endpoints and many web and mobile applications at scale.
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User Delight Driven Design of APIs
Michael Hyatt discusses the main complains users have with APIs and ways to address them using early user acceptance testing, RAML, JSON schemas, traits and mocks.