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From Zero to Hyper in 30 Minutes: Live Coding a Hypermedia Client
Mike Amundsen demos creating a HTTP request in JavaScript using Request, Response, Render, and Repeat, then handling the responses, and parsing the returned document for data, links, and forms.
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API or Die Trying
Brett Adam shares how Zendesk built an API-first company and some tips and tricks learned "from the field" on how to build an API that developers love.
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Test-Driven Microservices: System Confidence
Russ Miles shows how we can build production-level confidence in our polyglot microservices by applying the test-driven approach to synchronous (REST) and asynchronous (Messaging) services.
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The Simple Life of ReSTful Microservices
Sebastien Lambla explores how complexity can be reduced to its smallest cohesive parts, communication normalized through evolvable contracts, ReSTful and event-driven interfaces.
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Towards Immutable Resources
Mark Derricutt discusses the importance of having different read and write data models when working with RESTful web APIs.
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5 Anti-Patterns in Designing APIs
Ali Kheyrollahi elaborates on the Client-Server tenet of REST which focuses on separation of concerns and responsibilities between the client and the server.
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Keep It Simple*, Silly
Mark Walkholm discusses best practices around APIs and looks at some concepts around providing different ways for users to interact with a product to get the most from it.
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Light and Fluffy APIs in the Cloud
Shiva Narayanaswamy discusses event driven architectures, serverless architectures, identity management and security related to building APIs in the cloud.
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Creating Java REST Servers from Swagger API Definitions
Swagger is a simple but powerful representation of RESTful APIs. This talk gives an introduction to API creation using the Swagger Editor, and creating a REST service using swagger-codegen.
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APIs for Amnesty
Vivian Chandra outlines the benefits of an API they created including how it has helped them automate part of their CRM process and protected them from changes of the CRM system.
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Federated Queries with HAWQ - SQL on Hadoop and Beyond
Christian Tzolov shows different integration approaches between HAWQ and GemFire, showing using Spring XD to ingest GemFire data into HDFS and using Spring Boot to implement a RESTful proxy for HAWQ.
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Is that API Secure?
Marko Vuksanovic walks through HTTP security mechanisms, and how to transfer and store sensitive data.