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API: The "I" Stands for Innovation
Mike Amundsen discusses innovation and how the latest round of technical advances in APIs can be used to leverage growth and innovative thinking within teams, companies, and communities.
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A Review of Eclipse 4, Its APIs and Architecture
Tom Schindl reviews Eclipse 4’s API and architecture, pinpointing successes, failures and mistakes.
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From Zero to Hyper in 30 Minutes: Live Coding a Hypermedia Client
Mike Amundsen demos creating a HTTP request in JavaScript using Request, Response, Render, and Repeat, then handling the responses, and parsing the returned document for data, links, and forms.
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API or Die Trying
Brett Adam shares how Zendesk built an API-first company and some tips and tricks learned "from the field" on how to build an API that developers love.
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Subside Failure: Partitioning Time and Space
Sadek Drobi talks about the prismic.io API and how to understand the properties and the mechanics of a system, and to partition its different dimensions to avoid a domino style failure cascade.
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Stream Processing with Apache Flink
Robert Metzger provides an overview of the Apache Flink internals and its streaming-first philosophy, as well as the programming APIs.
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Test-Driven Microservices: System Confidence
Russ Miles shows how we can build production-level confidence in our polyglot microservices by applying the test-driven approach to synchronous (REST) and asynchronous (Messaging) services.
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The Simple Life of ReSTful Microservices
Sebastien Lambla explores how complexity can be reduced to its smallest cohesive parts, communication normalized through evolvable contracts, ReSTful and event-driven interfaces.
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Towards Immutable Resources
Mark Derricutt discusses the importance of having different read and write data models when working with RESTful web APIs.
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5 Anti-Patterns in Designing APIs
Ali Kheyrollahi elaborates on the Client-Server tenet of REST which focuses on separation of concerns and responsibilities between the client and the server.
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Keep It Simple*, Silly
Mark Walkholm discusses best practices around APIs and looks at some concepts around providing different ways for users to interact with a product to get the most from it.
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Light and Fluffy APIs in the Cloud
Shiva Narayanaswamy discusses event driven architectures, serverless architectures, identity management and security related to building APIs in the cloud.