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API-first Architecture Transformation at Etsy
Stefanie Schirmer talks about the case study of building an API-first architecture at Etsy, why they built it, the tools used, the mistakes made and the lessons learnt along the way.
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Building APIs
Mat Ryer takes a look at the code used for a real API running on Google AppEngine, discussing best practices for delivering modern web services.
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Escaping the Bikeshed with JSON-API
Rob Valk introduces the JSON-API 1.0 spec, taking a look at JVM ecosystem support for the standard with the katharsis.io library and its integration with the Mule runtime.
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Decoupled APIs through Microservices
David Simons introduces microservices as a developer's API tool, discussing why and when makes sense to use them, and the tools that make it easy to deal with a microservices architecture.
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The Architecture that Helps Stripe Move Faster
Evan Broder talks about how Stripe has designed the systems to speed up the development process and how the software infrastructure in their API enables the next tech companies to build faster.
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Apache Beam: The Case for Unifying Streaming APIs
Andrew Psaltis talks about Apache Beam, which aims to provide a unified stream processing model for defining and executing complex data processing, data ingestion and integration workflows.
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Business Process Orchestration & APIs
Saul Caganoff discusses the different use cases for API consumption and the technical affordances API designers can provide to support those use cases.
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Where's My DevOps API?
Matthew Erbs discusses the need for applying lessons learned building APIs for customers to the creation of internal APIs for the DevOps team.
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REST Considered Harmful
Ross Garrett explores how design decisions may be leading to poor UX, discussing the principles of reactive applications and how streaming APIs can deliver significant benefits over RESTful APIs.
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We Need to Talk About Docs
Nik Wakelin discusses why developers dislike writing documentation, what can be done about it and how to improve the process of writing docs.
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The Three T's of Digital Government Service Delivery
Lindsay Holmwood discusses the problems with the traditional approach to digital service delivery in government, and how APIs enable the DTO to help government deliver simpler, faster public services.
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The Netflix API Platform for Server-Side Scripting
Katharina Probst talks about the situations in which server-side scripting is a good solution for applications. She describes Netflix’s first approach, which uses Groovy scripts.