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Rethinking API Management Architecture
Nuwan Dias discusses API Management architectures, their problems and how they have influenced in building a brand new architecture for an API Management solution for modern enterprise systems.
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Why Do Companies Build APIs?
Alex Wilson discusses the reasons why companies build APIS including the financial reasons and the desire for digital transformation.
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Twelve Patterns for Hypermedia Microservices
Mike Amundsen presents 12 patterns and practices for building APIs that can evolve over time and client applications that can adapt to those changes without relying on explicit versioning systems.
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Golden Carrots: Digital Transformation with Payments APIs
Mark Pesce discusses using Payments API to drive a digital transformation, presenting how Web Payments provides a foundation for every API to integrate with every payments system using every currency.
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Bots & Messaging Application APIs
Jasmine Anteunis discusses integrating bots with messaging applications.
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GitHub's GraphQL Future
Kyle Daigle shares why GitHub chose GraphQL, how it differs from REST, how GitHub went about implementing it, and how they're using it in production a year later.
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Real Life Examples on How to Thrive Through Banking APIs
Lars Markull discusses using the figo Connect API to connect to thousands of banks and payment service providers to get info about transactions, portfolios, payments or notifications.
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API Design Lessons Learned: Enterprise to Startup
Mohamed El-Geish explores lessons learned at big companies like Microsoft and LinkedIn, and adapts the insights drawn from them to fit a fast-growing startup.
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Beyond REST: Coursera's Journey to GraphQL
Bryan Kane talks about why Coursera is transitioning to GraphQL and shares challenges and learnings from building their GraphQL assembly layer.
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Rethinking CodeGen: IDL, Thrift, gRPC, Ohh My
Cameron Waeland discusses the evolution of Compass and presents their extensible code generation framework which is at the heart of their automatically generated REST to gRPC reverse proxy.
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Front-End APIs: Powering Fast-Paced Iterations
Aditya Modi and Karthik Ramgopal explore LinkedIn’s ideas behind API modeling, the challenges they’ve faced, and how they are evolving their modeling strategy over time based on their learnings.
Resources
Building an Identity Architecture
Learn about the key components for building a centralized, modular identity architecture based on open standards. Register for free course.
JWT Security Best Practices
Best practices for protecting your APIs from attacks and maintaining a high level of security of applications. Learn more.
Hardening Single Page Application Security
How do you best protect Single Page Applications? Watch this webinar to learn security best practices when developing SPAs.
Curity Identity Server - Community Edition
Take the pain out of implementing OAuth and OpenID Connect, manage API access, secure apps and websites. Free to use.