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No REST - Architecting Real-Time Bulk Async APIs
Michael Uzquiano talks about how to scale an API to accept many items, how to evolve the Evolution of ReST over HTTP to transactional, asynchronous bulk operations and using polling.
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Cloud Platform Adoption: Lessons Learned
Philip Glebow discusses patterns, tools and processes used by Gap for integration, messaging, data, and scaling on Cloud Foundry, sharing lessons learned and plans for the future.
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Building APIs
Mat Ryer takes a look at the code used for a real API running on Google AppEngine, discussing best practices for delivering modern web services.
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Escaping the Bikeshed with JSON-API
Rob Valk introduces the JSON-API 1.0 spec, taking a look at JVM ecosystem support for the standard with the katharsis.io library and its integration with the Mule runtime.
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DigitalOcean: Microservices in Your Datacenter
Phil Calçado talks about the patterns and techniques DigitalOcean has used over the years to migrate from a monolithic architecture to SOA and microservices.
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Business Process Orchestration & APIs
Saul Caganoff discusses the different use cases for API consumption and the technical affordances API designers can provide to support those use cases.
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REST Considered Harmful
Ross Garrett explores how design decisions may be leading to poor UX, discussing the principles of reactive applications and how streaming APIs can deliver significant benefits over RESTful APIs.
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The Three T's of Digital Government Service Delivery
Lindsay Holmwood discusses the problems with the traditional approach to digital service delivery in government, and how APIs enable the DTO to help government deliver simpler, faster public services.
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A Darwinian Approach to APIs in Government Health
Bruce Haefele shares from the successes and failures implementing an API strategy at Healthdirect Australia.
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Typed Services Using Finch
Tom Adams outlines the problems faced when building small services, and how using a good type system can help, introducing Finch and highlighting how it addresses these concerns.
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Learnings from Implementing a Hypermedia Client
Uli Holtel discusses the principles of hypermedia APIs, how to decouple from media type formats, using profiles, 'fully dynamic' vs. 'tightly coupled' client, tools, code artifacts and examples.
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Hypermedia Web API as a Network of Data
Todd Brackley discusses accessing the “network of data” through a RESTful hypermedia API, exposing it to developers, testers, analysts and clients.