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Reactive REST
Jafar Husain explains how Netflix uses reactive programming to build and consume REST endpoints, and how they work around the limitations of the HTTP protocol to create high-performance REST APIs.
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RESTfully Async with Grails 2.3
Graeme Rocher talks through the latest Async features offered by Grails and how they can be used to create non-blocking REST APIs.
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API-Driven Development for Both Ends
Jakub Nesetril presents a practical example of prototyping, developing and testing an application using a structured description of its API.
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Redesigning PayPal APIs for Scale and Simplicity
Deepak Nadig, Praveen Alavilli present how PayPal redesigned its APIs based on lessons learnt developing their services in over 14 years, and the principles, patterns and anti-patterns used.
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What Makes a Great API?
John Musser explains how to transform a good API into a great one based on his experience with thousands of APIs at ProgrammableWeb and API Science.
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API Security and Federation Patterns
The role of API management infrastructure in API Security, API Access Control and API Federation and its interaction with enterprise infrastructure, social identity and application developers.
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Evolution of the Netflix API
Ben Christensen describes Netflix API's evolution to a web service platform serving all devices and users, the challenges met in operations, deployment, performance, fault-tolerance, and innovation.
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RESTful Groovy
Kyle Boon reviews 3 frameworks for building RESTful WS- Grails, Dropwizard and Ratpack-, comparing their code readability, maintainability, deployment, metrics collection, scalability and testability.
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The Magic Behind Enterprise Apps: How to Expose Reliable, Scalable and Secure Enterprise APIs?
Blake Dournaee covers the often forgotten back-end architecture for mobile apps which should expose cross-platform APIs to mitigate some of the effects of mobile O/S fragmentation.
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Spock: Soup to Nuts
Zan Thrash introduces Spock, a Grails testing framework that includes mocking, parameterized tests and an extension API.
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Building APIs with Grails
Bobby Warner discusses the pros and cons of the available options that Grails developers have for creating RESTful APIs.
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The Evolution of Windows: WinRT
Raymond Chen tells the story of Windows’ API evolution from the beginning up to its latest version, WinRT.