Nordic APIs Stockholm Spring 2013
as the organisers put it
The first Nordic APIs event. A half-day in Stockholm with 5 presentations from API experts about API trends, API security and identity, how to cope with the plethora of devices out there and the importance of interaction design. This morning session was added when the afternoon event was fully booked.
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| State of APIs: Now and Next | Andreas Krohn | 22m |
APIs are already the integration layer for web, cloud and mobile, and adoption spreads into big companies and government open data; Expedia already does over a… | ||
| Criticality of identity: The importance of knowing who your API consumer is | Hans Zandbelt | 24m |
Argues that user identity must be the central control for APIs, externalizing authentication and account management so applications use tokens not passwords… | ||
| HTML Hypermedia APIs and Adaptive Web Design | Gustaf Nilsson Kotte | 27m |
Claim: use HTML hypermedia APIs plus adaptive web design so a single server holds all application logic and many clients stay thin. Implementation: forked the… | ||
| Secure Social Media Integration: Safe and simple incorporation of social into your site | Travis Spencer | 16m |
Shows a working integration that uses Janrain for social login and CA SiteMinder as an access proxy to unify identities into a single SM user ID, demonstrated… | ||
| Before and after: Why did Sveriges Radio think we needed an open API | Tobias Löfgren | 20m |
A public broadcaster starts with screen‑scraped program lists (2007), replaces them with generated XML and RSS feeds as API, and powers an iPhone app that… | ||
| The "I" is for Interaction! Applying a developer-centric approach to API design | Ronnie Mitra | 26m |
Argues that API design must treat interfaces as interaction design focused on developer experience, identifying two core surfaces: the human portal and the… | ||
| Building a secure API: Overview of techniques and technologies needed to launch a secure API | Travis Spencer | 20m |
Covers a practical neo security stack: OAuth 2 as delegation (not authentication), OpenID Connect for federation, JWTs as compact bearer tokens, and SCIM for… | ||
| Lessons learned -- two years with Trafiklab | Lars Löfquist | 19m |
Trafiklab runs a cloud proxy on AWS (Ireland) with Bangalore devops that exposes legacy SOAP APIs as REST, does SOAP→REST, XML→JSON transforms, adds caching… | ||
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