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 dependencies
• Debugging becomes more difficult and tools are missing
• Need to debug: code, server, network, API code, API database, API server, API network (plus cloud vendor issues)
• Code, server, and network are in the control of the developer, but the API is often outside of a developer’s control
• We need to be able to monitor and mitigate failures of consumed APIs
• Netflix OSS tools help monitor and debug, since they are service-centric
• He quit his job and took his experience from Twillio and IFTTT to build a better hammer
• Built Runscope to help inspect, debug, and test API integrations