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Lessons from the field on API strategy, design, governance and AI integration.
#GlueCon 2013 Notes: Keynote: Automotive Connectivity: More Than Just a Phone With Wheels – Nick Pudar, General Motors
Keynote: Automotive Connectivity: More Than Just a Phone With Wheels – Nick Pudar, General Motors GM has two APIs: remote APIs for accessing OnStar and in-vehicle APIs for...
#GlueCon 2013 Notes: Keynote: Confessions of a Tech CEO Who Still Loves to Code Everyday – Lew Cirne, New Relic
Keynote: Confessions of a Tech CEO Who Still Loves to Code Everyday – Lew Cirne, New Relic New Relic was a “Do Over”, now has 50k customers, 250 employees, 3 o...
GlueCon 2013 Notes: Keynote: The New Kingmakers – Stephen O’Grady, Redmonk (@sogrady)
Keynote: The New Kingmakers – Stephen O’Grady, Redmonk (@sogrady) In the past, software was just an enabler The Share user group and IBM built a community to sell more har...
GlueCon 2013 Notes: Keynote: Fear and Loathing and Scalable Kindness on the Internet – Tim Bray, Google
Keynote: Fear and Loathing and Scalable Kindness on the Internet – Tim Bray, Google You go to signup for a new website: “No! Not another password!” There are m...
GlueCon 2013 Notes: Designing a Beautiful REST+JSON API – Les Hazlewood, CTO of Stormpath
Designing a Beautiful REST+JSON API – Les Hazlewood, CTO of Stormpath (@lhazlewood) REST is really hard (for providers) Guidelines and conventions can make it easy Resourc...
GlueCon 2013 Notes: Does Your API Have Swagger? – Sumit Sharma, Mulesoft
Does Your API Have Swagger? – Sumit Sharma, Mulesoft Too often we slap on an API and let the consumers suffer Inside-Out API development – over designed, too many ab...
GlueCon 2013 Notes: Machine Learning APIs (You Probably Didn’t Know About) – Chris Ismael, Mashape
Machine Learning APIs (You Probably Didn’t Know About) – Chris Ismael, Mashape Many machine learning libraries have complexity hidden behind an API Natural language proces...
GlueCon 2013 Notes: An Architectural Look at Designing e-commerce APIs – Saranyan Vigraham, BigCommerce
An Architectural Look at Designing e-commerce APIs – Saranyan Vigraham, BigCommerce (@saranyan) Bad Design Rigid – too hard to change, too many parts get affected by...
GlueCon 2013 Notes: Single Page Architectures: The API and Appification for the Web Steven Willmott, 3Scale
Single Page Architectures: The API and Appification for the Web Steven Willmott, 3Scale (@njyx and @3scale) Plenty of toolkits available to build SPAs Upsides – more respo...
GlueCon 2013 Notes: The Free Lunch Is Over, Again – Andy Gross, Chief Architect at Basho
The Free Lunch Is Over, Again – Andy Gross, Chief Architect at Basho (@argv0) The Free Lunch Is Over, 2005 Paper by Herb Sutter – “A fundamental turn towards c...
GlueCon 2013 Notes: Keynote: Ushering in the Bronze Age of Distributed Application Tooling – John Sheehan, Runscope
Keynote: Ushering in the Bronze Age of Distributed Application Tooling – John Sheehan, Runscope Services are the new process Service dependencies are still code dependenci...
#GlueCon 2013 Notes and Slides Hub Page
This is the main page for that contains links to all GlueCon 2013 keynote and session notes, along with links to slide decks (for sessions that I wasn’t able to attend). D...