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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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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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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.
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Mobile-friendly Server Interfaces
This panel discusses things to do and to avoid in building APIs for mobile apps, and answer attendees' questions on the topic.
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RESTful Clojure
Siva Jagadeesan on how to build good web APIs using Resource Oriented Architecture (ROA) and Clojure, showing how to build one with Clojure.
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API Conf Panel: Enterprise APIs
Sumit Sharma, Bruno Pedro, Heather O’Sullivan discuss the status of enterprise APIs, providing insight in adopting API at the enterprise level, plus offering insight in creating such APIs.
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API Conf Panel: API Design Best Practices
Jakub Nesetril, Tony Tam, Kirsten Jones share tools and tips for building great APIs.
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API Conf Fireside Chat: Peter Orlowsky, VP, Getty Images
Peter Orlowsky provides insights into the strategy choices that created Getty Images’ API program and the customer/business value the API creates.
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Writing Usable APIs in Practice
Giovanni Asproni expands upon the idea that usable APIs help writing clean code.