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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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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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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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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.
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Open APIs: State of the Market
John Musser discusses the state of open web APIs, remarking its growth over time, the current technological trends, the market leaders, and other API-related aspects.
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Who are You? Who am I? Who is Anybody?
Paul Downey talks on the current status of identity management on the web covering cross-site challenges, REST, HTTPS, Open ID, all in the context of enterprise architecture.
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The Guardian's Content Web API
Phil Wills discusses why The Guardian has introduced the Content Web API, how it has influenced the architecture of the site and how they develop software and collaborate with partners.
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Heresies and Dogmas in Software Development
Dean Wampler discusses the merits of several controversial issues: Goto, Design before Code, Design Patterns, Corba vs. REST, Object Middleware and ORMs, and Identifiers with Spaces.
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Using Hypermedia Services for Systems Integration
Tim Ewald explains why hypermedia is good for system integration through services –providing support for evolution, service request routing, and application recovery-, and how to build such services.
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Getting Things Done with REST
Ian Robinson discusses how to implement a hypermedia-driven web application and how to test its workflow giving as example a RESTful web service he built on top of Microsoft’s Web API.