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Lessons from the field on API strategy, design, governance and AI integration.
#GlueCon 2014 Notes: Keynote: API SDKs will ruin your life – John Sheehan, Runscope
Keynote: API SDKs will ruin your life – John Sheehan, Runscope Started a company to solve issues around building .Net API clients and SDKs Spent a lot of time at Twilio thinking...
#GlueCon 2014: Keynote: The Parallel Universes of DevOps and Cloud Developers – Donnie Berkholz, RedMonk
Keynote: The Parallel Universes of DevOps and Cloud Developers – Donnie Berkholz, RedMonk Background as a drug discovery scientist Most attendees of DevOps conferences are ops, ...
#GlueCon 2014: Keynote: Containers all the way down – Solomon Hykes, Docker
Keynote: Containers all the way down: a blueprint for upgrading the Internet – Solomon Hykes, Docker The applications we are building due to the new requirements don’...
#GlueCon 2014: APIStrat UnWorkshop Notes – Internet of Things
APIStrat UnWorkshop – Internet of Things Why HTTP Won’t Work for IoT – Tim Kellogg @kellogh Embedded + Internet = IoT Constrained environments – memory, embedd...
#GlueCon 2014 Notes and Slides Hub Page
This is the main page for that contains links to all GlueCon 2014 keynote and session notes, along with links to slide decks (for sessions that I wasn’t able to attend). Preconf...
Building Better APIs in Ruby (and Rails)
I recently presented a lightning talk at Austin on Rails titled “5 ways to build better APIs in Ruby”. Below is the slide deck, along with a coupon code to our book ...
#DefragCon 2013 Notes: APIs In a Post-API World – Uri Sarid, Mulesoft
APIs In a Post-API World – Uri Sarid, Mulesoft Mashups in 2005 – mostly about Google Maps, not much else was available Now we have a huge number of APIs available > 13,...
#DefragCon 2013 Notes: Towards an API Commons – Steven Wilmott, 3Scale and Kin Lane, Presidential Innovation Fellow
Towards an API Commons – Steven Wilmott, 3Scale and Kin Lane, Presidential Innovation Fellow The number of APIs are exploding Need client code to help interact with the APIs Cod...
#DefragCon 2013 Notes: Sustainable Software Engineering Culture (Without The Ninjas) – Mike Gehard, Pivotal Labs
Sustainable Software Engineering Culture (Without The Ninjas) – Mike Gehard, Pivotal Labs Everyone wants predictability in an unpredictable world Sustainability over time is cri...
#DefragCon 2013: Programming with Personal Clouds: A Post-Web Architecture — Phil Windley, Kynetx
Programming with Personal Clouds: A Post-Web Architecture – Phil Windley, Kynetx Personal cloud made up of a constellation of persistent computational objects – picos Pico...
#DefragCon 2013 Notes: The Sands of Time: How Cloud is Changing the Role of the CIO — Rod Smith, IBM
The Sands of Time: How Cloud is Changing the Role of the CIO – Rod Smith, IBM LoBs want apps “built and deployed in less than 6 days” Looking for business value firs...
#DefragCon 2013 Notes: Industrial Entropy and the Future of Work – Chris DeVore, Founders Co-op
Industrial Entropy and the Future of Work – Chris DeVore, Founders Co-op Ronald Coase – “The Nature of the Firm” paper – why companies exist Firms gather...