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The Structure of API Revolutions
Daniel Jacobson shares advice on dealing with evolving APIs based on his experience with Netflix APIs.
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API Conf Keynote: Steve Klabnik on "Why Open?"
Steve Klabnik discusses the importance of having an open API, believing that those who have it will succeed in the long run, and the others will fail.
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API Conf Keynote: Jeff Meisel, National Instruments
Jeff Meisel shares insight in National Instruments’ attempt to create an open API for their software spanning 25 years.
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OpenStack Extensions: Challenges and Lessons Learned in the Development and Governance of Extensible REST Services
Jorge Williams shares some of the challenges and lessons learned while adding extensions to OpenStack.
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Transactions: Over Used or Just Misunderstood?
Mark Little provides advice on when it is not recommended to use transactions and how to use transactions with Web Services, NoSQL, REST and mobile infrastructures.
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Spring Data REST: Easily Export JPA Entities Directly to the Web
Jon Brisbin explains how to expose JPA entities via the Spring Data Repository abstraction and then exporting them to HTTP using Spring Data REST.
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Caching Hypermedia APIs
Tim Stokes discusses various URI caching strategies providing real life examples relying on some of the natural behaviors that are built into the HTTP 1.1 protocol.
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Test-Driven Web APIs
Ian Robinson discusses creating test-driven, resource-oriented and hypermedia-based web APIs, and constructing clients for consuming them.
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Reinventing Rackspace: Agile-techture - Nimble Cloud Engineering
Wayne Walls discusses how Rackspace does cloud based on OpenStack, touching: open source, cloud on cloud, continuous delivery, and open API.
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Designing a REST-ful API Using Spring 3
Ben Hale explains how to design and test a RESTful API with Spring MVC, providing an example of a simple game application showing the design principles used.
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Going Real-time: How to Build a Streaming API
Ross Mason explains what real-time API is, the corresponding technologies and trends, demoing using streaming APIs.
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The Costs and Benefits of Building Hypermedia APIs (with Node.js)
Mike Amundsen discusses the theory behind building hypermedia APIs combined with real life cases exemplifying the successes and failures of such an endeavor.