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Beyond POSIX - Adventures in Alternative Networking APIs
Michael Barker surveys some of the alternative APIs available on various platforms, discussing some of the implementation pitfalls. He also looks at the impact of using these APIs.
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Federated GraphQL to Solve Service Sprawl at Major League Baseball
Olessya Medvedeva and Matt Oliver discuss how they have begun to implement a Federated GraphQL architecture to solve the issue of service discovery, sprawl and ultimately getting the data needed.
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Co-Designing Raft + Thread-per-Core Execution Model for the Kafka-API
Alex Gallego discusses the lessons learned building a new storage engine from scratch with no virtual memory, no page cache, with purpose-built read-ahead and write-behind strategies.
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How to Tame Your Service APIs: Evolving Airbnb’s Architecture
Jessica Tai discusses the challenges scaling to hundreds of services, how to simplify APIs, the trade-offs in API design, and how to test and operate flexible aggregator APIs and service blocks.
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Rebuilding Twitter’s Public API
Steve Cosenza discusses why Twitter's multi-tenant API platform was built with Scala, GraphQL, and how Twitter uses SLOs for monitoring and alerting in production.
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Using DevEx to Accelerate GraphQL Federation Adoption @Netflix
Paul Bakker and Kavitha Srinivasan discuss how they made certain Build vs Buy (open source) trade-offs and the socio-technical aspects of working with many teams on a single shared schema.
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The Past, Present, and Future of Cloud Native API Gateways
Daniel Bryant discusses the evolution of API gateways over the past ten years, current challenges of using Kubernetes, strategies for exposing services and APIs, the (potential) future of gateways.
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How Netflix Scales Its API with GraphQL Federation
Jennifer Shin and Stephen Spalding discuss Netflix’s API unification process using GraphQL Federation.
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Introducing and Scaling a GraphQL BFF
Michelle Garrett talks about the journey of introducing and then scaling a GraphQL BFF to serve multiple applications.
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A Brief History of the Future of the API
Mark Rendle talks about the various technologies and standards from across the years, the pros and cons of each, and which solutions are appropriate for which problems.
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The Future of Cloud Native API Gateways
Richard Li talks about the evolution of API gateways over the past ten years, and how the original problems being solved have shifted in relation to cloud native technologies and workflow.
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Next Generation Client APIs in Envoy Mobile
Jose Nino guides the audience through the journey of Mobile APIs at Lyft, focusing on how the team reaped the benefits of API generation to experiment with the network transport layer.