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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.
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Creating Java REST Servers from Swagger API Definitions
Swagger is a simple but powerful representation of RESTful APIs. This talk gives an introduction to API creation using the Swagger Editor, and creating a REST service using swagger-codegen.