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Reactive & Asynchronous - Adventures with APIs in Financial Trading
Michael Barker discusses several low-latency APIs used for financial trading, what makes them fast and how they compare to HTTP/REST/JSON/XML APIs.
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API Design Aesthetics
Col Perks looks at API design as a style, considering the qualities that might make an API beautiful and providing real world examples.
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Distributed Workflows with Hypermedia Clients
Glenn Block introduces Hypergoal, a way of creating distributed workflows with hypermedia clients.
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Hypermedia API Architectural Patterns
Gareth Evans and Rick Mugridge share the patterns that emerged while developing hypermedia APIs for various companies over time.
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Panel: IBM, Westpac, Certus, and Enable Discuss APIs and Microservices
Dennis Ashby moderates a panel discussing the role of APIs in building microservices and the challenges to be overcome.
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Stored Procedures as a Service
Abhishek Tiwari discusses how to use stored procedures to create a fast-track API transformation program on top of legacy systems,migrating business logic into a service tier,one store proc at a time
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API Specification Shootout
Justin Wood and Giovanni Vigorrelli compare and contrast RAML and Swagger, do a round up of the other specifications languages, and present some conclusions.
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Automatic Discovery of Service Metadata for Systems at Scale
Martina Iglesias Fernández discusses Spotify’s approach to documentation through automatic discovery of existing endpoints, service configuration, and deployment information at runtime.
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Machine Learning Your Way to Smarter API Error Responses
Steven Cooper discusses using machine learning to understand malformed API requests to not only respond with a best fit response, but capture the user errors for future responses.
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Hypermedia Myths and Misconceptions
Glenn Block discusses the truth and myth beyond some beliefs: the web was built for hypermedia, there is no REST without hypermedia, hypermedia is the magic cure for all API ills, etc.
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User Delight Driven Design of APIs
Michael Hyatt discusses the main complains users have with APIs and ways to address them using early user acceptance testing, RAML, JSON schemas, traits and mocks.
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The Platform Manifesto
Simon Raik-Allen explores how alternative Agile Manifesto style statements can be used for other challenges and specifically around the building of a technology platform.