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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.
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Designing & Consuming a Cloud 2.0 API
Andrew Phillips discusses Cloud API 2.0: the current state of cloud computing, why a Cloud API, the choices made while designing jClouds API, and how to consume such an API.
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Techniques for Scaling the Netflix API
Daniel Jacobson covers the history of Netflix’s APIs, adaptation for the cloud, development and testing, resiliency, and the future of their APIs.
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Building a Great Web API
Evan Cooke discussing ways of building Simple APIs with fast signup, a clear value proposition, efficient quick start, concise documentation, easy authentication and debuggable.
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iOS Networking: Bonjour, Cloud!
Chris Adamson introduces several iOS networking APIs: iCloud, Bonjour, GameKit, CFNetwork, Foundation, Media APIs, and System Configuration.
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Bringing the Open Web to Mobile Devices
Andreas Gal introduces Mozilla’s Boot 2 Gecko, a cross device web-based platform with applications written in HTML5, JavaScript and CSS.
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The API Platform
Gregory Brail discusses about APIs, what an API platform is, how the typical API call flows-security, authorization, authentication, caching, etc., and some of the challenges in using an API platform.