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Scaling GraphQL Adoption at Netflix
Tejas Shikhare discusses how Netflix migrated to GraphQL and some of the problems they had to solve scaling it.
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The State of APIs in the Container Ecosystem
Phil Estes attempts to demystify the state of APIs across the container landscape, overviewing the how and why of the layers of APIs that drive how containers work today.
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APIs at Scale: Creating Rich Interfaces that Stand the Test of Time
Matthew Clark, Paul Caporn take a look at versioning, design patterns, handling different use-cases, supporting high-traffic moments, and the merits of different API types.
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The Journey to API Management on the Cloud
The panelists explore how to build, integrate, and expose services as managed APIs in the cloud to follow best practices and manage large deployments.
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Securing APIs and Microservices in the Cloud
Stefania Chaplin discusses how to secure APIs and microservices in the cloud based on OWASP recommendations.
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GraphQL Caching on the Edge
Max Stoiber discusses why and how to edge cache production GraphQL APIs at scale.
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A Standardized, Specification-Driven API Lifecycle
Kin Lane discusses API specifications like OpenAPI and AsyncAPI, and how they have emerged as the way API producers and consumers are engaging across the entire API lifecycle.
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API Showdown: REST vs. GraphQL vs. gRPC – Which Should You Use?
Alex Borysov, Matt McLarty and Michelle Garrett discuss REST, GraphQL, and gRPC, what it takes to get started, and when each is the right/wrong tool for the job.
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Beyond POSIX - Adventures in Alternative Networking APIs
Michael Barker surveys some of the alternative APIs available on various platforms, discussing some of the implementation pitfalls. He also looks at the impact of using these APIs.
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Federated GraphQL to Solve Service Sprawl at Major League Baseball
Olessya Medvedeva and Matt Oliver discuss how they have begun to implement a Federated GraphQL architecture to solve the issue of service discovery, sprawl and ultimately getting the data needed.
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Co-Designing Raft + Thread-per-Core Execution Model for the Kafka-API
Alex Gallego discusses the lessons learned building a new storage engine from scratch with no virtual memory, no page cache, with purpose-built read-ahead and write-behind strategies.
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How to Tame Your Service APIs: Evolving Airbnb’s Architecture
Jessica Tai discusses the challenges scaling to hundreds of services, how to simplify APIs, the trade-offs in API design, and how to test and operate flexible aggregator APIs and service blocks.