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Keynote: The API Economy is Here: Facebook, Twitter, Netflix and Your IT Enterprise
Corey Scobie explores the growth and evolution of APIs, presenting how business are using APIs today, how that changes the world of software, and emphasizing the need to API management.
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Web API Evolution
Rob Daigneau discusses some of the challenges met when creating and maintaining web APIs, impediments and design patterns for web API evolution.
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How to Follow Instructions
Leonard Richardson discusses REST and hypermedia links and forms – seen as instructions from the server to the client. Client using instructions can be reused and support complex behavior.
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RESTful Java Evolves
Bill Burke discusses using REST from Java, overviewing JAX-RS 1.1 and detailing some of the new features coming in JAX-RS 2.0 – Async HTTP, Filters/Interceptors, Client framework-.
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The Costs and Benefits of Building Hypermedia APIs (with Node.js)
Mike Amundsen explores a way of designing hypermedia APIs based on messages instead of URIs, plus documenting, extending, versioning and registering hypermedia designs.
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OAuth - Everything You Want to Know (Hopefully)
Pratap Chilukuri explains what OAuth is and how it works, exemplifying using the protocol with an example.
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NYTimes: World Class Journalism Accessible on Every Device
Brian Murphy on NY Times mobile: the architecture, cloud computing influences on design, native, HTML5 and hybrid apps, tools and frameworks employed and how the apps evolved over time.
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The Evolution of Integration
Paul Fremantle discusses the evolution of EAI, comparing the latest approaches, suggesting using Async Messaging, EDA, APIs, and doing high volumes, and underlining that evolution is not monotonic.
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Accessing Real-World APIs from Clojure
Pat Patterson discusses ways of consuming RESTful APIs from Clojure on a securely manner using OAuth 2.0.
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High Performance Network Applications in the Capital Markets
Todd Montgomery discusses messaging and how peer-to-peer messaging has changed capital markets, then takes a peek into its future pointing out that queuing is dead.
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REST, And Now for Something Completely Different
Mike Amundsen offers a deeper explanation of REST, going beyond URIs, HTTP or web pages to the architectural style REST provides and the 6 constraints imposed by REST.
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DevOps to NoOps: 10 Cloud Services You Should Be Using
Ross Mason discusses top 10 infrastructure APIs that help building applications quicker in this age marked by a platform and technological shift.