Platform Summit 2014
2014-10-20..2014-10-22
Stockholm, Sweden
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| API Security in 2017 | Travis Spencer | 29m |
Predicts a “perfect storm” of breaches by 2017 and prescribes concrete defenses: adopt the neo security stack (OAuth2, OpenID Connect, FIDO, ALFA), split… | ||
| OAuth and OpenID Connect for Microservices | Jacob Ideskog | 19m |
Argues that microservices should offload auth to OAuth and OpenID Connect and exchange identity as JWTs as self-contained identity tokens; uses opaque… | ||
| Content Negotiation for REST APIs | Erik Michaels-Ober | 26m |
Argues that REST APIs should serve resources, not file-encoded representations, by using built-in HTTP content negotiation so the same URI can return PNG, SVG… | ||
| Building Open Data Platforms, an Insider's Perspective | Andreas Krohn | 24m |
Open data projects here are concrete: dozens of Swedish city and national datasets were published as CSV/Excel or simple APIs, not full OAuth platforms, and… | ||
| Scaling API Design | Jason Harmon | 21m |
Argues that API programs start at the portfolio level: name and define capabilities from the customer perspective, then design resources; choose a spec and… | ||
| REST APIs for partners, what’s the catch when applying best practices | Konstantin Yakushev | 15m |
Private B2B API for five major clients encounters repeated data loss because integrators ignore 400 errors and business teams delay providing SKU lists. Fixes… | ||
| APIs for the B2B Social Tech Revolution | Gert Sylvest | 25m |
A live B2B network connects 500,000 companies across 190 countries and transacts one billion dollars a month via a REST API that is modeled on UBL 2.1 (65… | ||
| Applying Azure Machine Learning service to drive success of API programs | Evgeny Popov | 13m |
Built an Azure Machine Learning pipeline that ingests API analytics and produces a developer scoring model to classify accounts into segmentation into stages… | ||
| The Last Line of Code, Your API is Never Finished | Michael Wawra | 20m |
Claim: an API is never finished because the last line of code lives in users’ apps, so shipping a REST endpoint alone fails to hide protocol quirks. Uses… | ||
| The Art of Effective API Design | Ronnie Mitra | 22m |
Argues that API design needs UX processes — need finding, ideation, testing and iteration — and demonstrates a lightweight tool that creates a domain… | ||
| The Architect is not Convinced | Adam Duvander | 26m |
Architects refuse blanket promises and want specifics: the four concrete objections are control, reliability, security, longevity and each needs a concrete… | ||
| REST Clients | Pau Ramon | 18m |
Redbooth uses one API for web, iOS, Android, Gmail and Outlook clients and integrates with Dropbox, Box and Evernote; this forces design choices: avoid… | ||
| API Platforms, Ready for Testing and Virtualization | Matti Hjelm | 16m |
Argues that service virtualization is essential to complete an API platform: build and share distributable virtual APIs that emulate core behavior, simulate… | ||
| Your Http-based API is not restful | Jakob Mattsson | 20m |
Claim: most HTTP APIs that call themselves RESTful are just RPC and lack hypermedia as the engine of application state; solution is to embed links in JSON so… | ||
| API Design Lifecycle | Honza Javorek | 15m |
API design uses documentation-first iterations rather than waterfall: write an API Blueprint markdown contract, parse it into a JSON tree, generate mock… | ||
| Enabling the future of work: Balancing a two-sided market | Steffen Breinholt Hedebrandt | 17m |
Elance-oDesk claims to be the world’s biggest online work platform with 8 million freelancers, 2 million businesses and 2.7 million jobs per year, and shows a… | ||
| Perspectives matter:Deliver value with hypermedia | Dimitrios Tydeas Mengidis | 16m |
Argues that APIs must be designed for callers and shows a concrete fix: a SoundCloud search returns a 404, then an inconsistent JSON payload with an array, an… | ||
| What Makes an Agile API? | Christian Nilsson | 23m |
Beepsend describes concrete lessons: avoid reinventing the wheel by outsourcing noncore features and gain customers through Zapier integration and partners… | ||
| Why everyone speaking "Apish" makes your whole business more agile | Marjukka Niinioja | 24m |
Claim: getting everyone to speak APIs turns slow, custom integrations into repeatable, fast workflows. Evidence: a 25-person ERP vendor with 100 customers… | ||
| Decentralizing Identity by Mixing OAuth and Btcoin Protocols | Mehdi Medjaoui | 21m |
Claims that the web uses a blockchain as identity provider: users hold a keypair, apps verify signatures, and wallets and replicated authorization nodes handle… | ||
| Identity:The missing link in API security | David Gorton | 19m |
Identity becomes the enforceable link for authentication, authorization, throttling and auditing rather than just client secrets; the session shows concrete… | ||
| Microservices Anti-Patterns | Tammer Saleh | 20m |
Advice: don’t start with microservices; begin monolithic and start boring — Instagram scaled with Postgres. concrete pitfalls: one endpoint forces scaling the… | ||
| Token-Based Architecture Design | R. Kevin Nelson | 22m |
Token design determines whether authentication is a DB bottleneck or a constant‑time primitive: using stateless signed tokens (encrypted payload, HMAC) removes… | ||
| The architecture of an API platform | Johannes Lundberg | 18m |
46elks builds a European cloud communications platform that combines voice SMS MMS in one API, launched 3.5 years ago and exposed as a JSON API. Architecture… | ||
| The internet of things challange:building APIs that last for decades | Irakli Nadareishvili | 30m |
Claim: APIs must use hypermedia and explicit media types so clients don’t hardcode URLs and break when servers change. Backed by Cisco’s projection of 50… | ||
| The global trend of platformication | Kin Lane | 15m |
Argues companies must expose data content and resources as self-service APIs (developer portal, JSON endpoints, docs, SDKs) but warns tech alone fails: expect… | ||
| Building an API platform One brick at a time | Dennis Bjørn Petersen | 27m |
LEGO builds an internal auth API called LEGO ID to let external partners link child accounts without sharing passwords, using an iframe on Chima Online and a… | ||
| Tvined Demo | Gert Sylvest | 08m |
A live demo of a no-code API explorer that lets users combine API calls into small “cards,” map JSON/XML into readable tables, and output filtered JSON for… | ||
| Designing API for Mobile Apps | Wojtek Erbetowski | 16m |
Practical checklist for mobile APIs: merge responses to match UI, support expand/nesting so clients request only needed fields, enable keep-alive and gzip… | ||
| Minimum Viable Platform | Marco Herbst | 18m |
Company pivots a Cloud CCTV product into a camera platform called Evercam, aiming to expose Swagger API endpoints and client widgets while handling… | ||
| Lessons learned from Re-architecting an API platform | Sawyer Bateman | 26m |
EasyPost converts an MVP into an enterprise API that sustains thousands of requests per second by abandoning Heroku/AWS middlemen for dedicated servers… | ||
| Startup APIs: Don't waste your investor's money | Alexander Yngling | 11m |
Built prototypes attract funding but hide messy APIs so expect to be sole back-end dev for ~6–18 months and to have thrown away quick hacks; invest a few… | ||
| Good APIs aren´t built in a day | Daniel Feist | 22m |
Daniel Feist - Mulesoft - 22/10/2014
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| The power of unexpected APIs | Ellen Sundh | 21m |
Demonstrates repurposing closed and sensor APIs: a 16‑camera tracking API streams player positions 25 times a second over UDP to iPhones, converted into a… | ||
| The rise of open banking | Ismail Chaib | 17m |
Claim: banks become platforms by exposing standard APIs so third parties can build services faster and cheaper. The Open Bank Project provides a Scala/JVM… | ||
| API platform: Building the business case to support the strategy | Andy Jones | 21m |
Argues that buying an API management platform usually beats building one because it delivers policy-driven gateways for fast, consistent security and… | ||
| Using APIs appropriately | Erik Eng | 18m |
Advice: treat web services as unreliable and never trust an API; monitor dependencies with uptime checks (Pingdom), cache responses, and design for failure so… | ||
| Microsoft | Evgeny Popov | 08m |
Azure positions itself as a full API lifecycle platform, offering Azure API Management as a proxy that works with APIs hosted anywhere, a customizable… | ||
| Mulesoft | Daniel Feist | 12m |
Ten minute flash demo of MuleSoft Anypoint Platform that claims full API lifecycle coverage — Anypoint Platform and a design‑first approach using RAML… | ||
| SmartBear Software | Matti Hjelm | 09m |
SmartBear rebuilds SoapUI into a testing platform that combines UI test suites, load and security testing, and a new service virtualization tool called… | ||
| User-centric API Access control using UMA | Mark Dobrinic | 10m |
UMA (User Managed Access) is a specification (in development since 2009) that solves authorization only, not identity or authentication, and aligns with EU… | ||
| CA Technologies | Aran White | 17m |
CA API Management showcases a developer portal that issues API keys, demos OAuth2 flows (hello, weather examples) and generates client code, plus a mobile… | ||
| Using App Competitions to Promote your API | Brian Koles | 17m |
ChallengePost runs both weekend hackathons and monthslong online challenges and reports that 1–2 day prototypes from local hackathons produce awareness… | ||
| Why does an API Platform need developer evangelists? | Tony Blank | 20m |
Argues that developer evangelists accelerate API adoption by doing hands‑on work at events and with content, running hackathons, mentoring startups, writing… | ||
| Growth hacking APIs What role do APIs play in your growth strategy | Vanessa Meyer | 20m |
APIs fall into three actionable typologies: infrastructure (API-as-product) where growth metric is activation measured as API calls, API-projects-product where… | ||
| Why Developers use APIs and what can you do about it. | Daniel Rudmark | 19m |
Daniel Rudmark - Viktoria Swedish ICT - 21/10/2014
A crucial issue for any organization launching an API is developer adoption. However, while many… | ||
| Industrial Internet and APIs Platformication,a Match made in heaven? | Marko Pitkänen | 19m |
Marko Pitkänen - Descom - 21/10/2014
Industrial Internet and API -platformication fits together and actually it seems that we can’t implement System of Systems… | ||
| The 5 API Platform Monetization Models | Rob Zazueta | 21m |
Five concrete API monetization routes: direct charging per-call or subscription with freemium trials measured by ARPU metric; upselling via tiered packages… | ||
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