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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.
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API Conf Panel: The Future of Media API
Irakli Nadareishvili, Jon Moore, and Anthony Cuellar share insight in creating teams and building media APIs for distributing content.
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API Conf Panel: The Future of Music APIs
Andrew Mager, Paul Osman, Evan Stein and R. Kevin Nelson share from their experience introducing a music API culture into their companies and developing such APIs.
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Road to REST
Rickard Oberg explains how to expose use-cases to solve the linking problem in RESTful APIs, and how this will simplify both API development, documentation, as well as client development.
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APIs in Government
Gray Brooks discusses the efforts around creating APIs for accessing the vast amounts of data administered by the US Government.