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APIs for Open Source Hardware
Justin Mclean introduces the Open Source Hardware, its communication protocols (RF, ZigBee, WiFi, Bluetooth) and the software/API layer (HTTP, WebSockets, Can Bus, COAPI and MQTT) used.
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Liberating the API Economy with Scale-Free Networks
Mike Amundsen explores the "Scale-Free" (long tail) rule of complex systems and how it affect the producing and consuming of web APIs.
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Hybris-as-a-Service: A Microservices Architecture in Action
Andrea Stubbe explains how to create cloud applications with microservices using Hybris’ platform and API.
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For the Love of Small
Owen Evans discusses microservices: how to leverage them and interconnected APIs, the overhead of such an architecture, types of microservices architectures and pros/cons.
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Groovy Vampires: Combining Groovy, REST, NoSQL, and More
Ken Kousen discusses combining various technologies: Groovy, Ratpack, MongoDB, Grails, REST.
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API Abstraction and API Chaining in Grails
Owen Rubel discusses the benefits of API abstraction: easier externalization, synchronization and sharing, reloading the API config on the fly, DRY'r code, batching, reduced throughput and much more.
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Building IoT APIs - Dos and Don’ts
Preeti Lovekar, Simon Lemay discuss the major components of an IOT platform, dos and don’ts when building APIs for them, common pitfalls and solutions using open source tools and standards.
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Domain Service Aggregators: A Structured Approach to Microservice Composition
Caoilte O'Connor explains how and when the Domain Service Aggregator Archetype can help, using the architectural evolution of "Video on Demand" in a broadcast company as a working example.
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Managing Internal and External Services for a High Uptime Goal
Shobana Radhakrishnan shares details about best practices adopted in implementing API integration with third party services, how to manage change and deal with failures.
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Restful Services in Grails
Ken Kousen demonstrates the RESTful features in Grails and shows how to take advantage of them with annotations, controllers, renderers and more.
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Building Awesome APIs with Grails
Chris Latimer discusses how to develop APIs ready for public consumption with Grails.
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From a Monolith to Microservices + REST: the Evolution of LinkedIn's Service Architecture
Steven Ihde and Karan Parikh discuss about tools and frameworks built in order to help LinkedIn's transition to microservices, including their URN resolution engine and the Rest.li API Hub.