InfoQ Homepage Presentations
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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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Hardware & Provisioning Engineering @Twitter
M. Singer and N. Johnson present the Provisioning Engineering system at Twitter, called Wilson, which together with Audubon is designed to handle every part of a server's lifecycle.
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Welcome inside the Head of Larry Wall
Larry Wall is interviewed by Joe Armstrong to find out what goes on inside the head of a programming language designer. Is there a method to use when designing a new language?
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Leaders at All Levels
Esther Derby explores a different definition of leadership: “The ability to enhance the environment, so that everyone is empowered to contribute creatively to solving the problem(s).”
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What is Reactive Programming?
Evgeny Poberezkin discusses the evolution of both the definition and implementations of Reactive Programming and how they have been converging in building responsive applications.
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One and Only One Process in a Distributed System
Nathan Herald discusses the possibility to create a distributed system with one process representing every user / shared resource in Elixir.
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Ensuring Compliance of 3rd Party App Access in a PSD2 World
David Stewart discusses being successful with open APIs and PSD2.
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Open Data in UK
Senaka Fernando discusses Open Data: what it is, who uses it, why APIs are important, and how to promote the use of it.
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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.
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Generating Unified APIs with Protocol Buffers and gRPC
Chris Roche and Christopher Burnett discuss how they extended the Protocol Buffer (PB) IDL to create unified APIs and data models, and how they used Envoy to move HTTP 1.1 services to gRPC.
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Reasoning about Complex Distributed Systems
Erich Ess discusses technical tools needed to gain information on a complex system and practical approaches to convert that information into an actual understanding of the system.