The Wonderful World of API's - Take 2

Now that everyone has had their summer to REST and relax.... we are looking forward to hosting another API Meetup.

Doors will open at 6.30pm.

Speaker 1: 6.50pm.

Speaker 2: 7.10pm.

Speaker 3: 7.30pm.

Complimentary food 7.50pm.

Speakers are as follows...

Speaker 1: Vincent Glennon.

Occupation: CTO at FanFootage.com

Title: Basing an API directly off ActiveRecord objects.

Synopsis: Vincent has been working in rails since 2.2. He has progressed from grape, rails-api, rabl and will discuss some cons of them. Currently he uses Brainstem (json api gem). It works off ActiveRecord objects instead of custom endpoints.

Vincent will cover versioning, subdomains, namespaces, read caching and how it can be used in FanFootage.com.

Speaker 2: Kevin Carey

Occupation: Waratek

Title: How the Waratek Java Virtualization Interface provides Multitenancy for Apache Tomcat

Synopsis:

• Reasons for adopting JVI
• Elasticat - Multitenant Apache Tomcat using JVI (demo)
• Overview of Java Virtualization Interface API

Speaker 3: Ian Harris

Occupation: Golgi.io

Title: Golgi is a data transport layer for developers. It can be thought of not as providing a service API to developers but rather as providing a layer on which developers can implement their service API. Traditionally this layer has been dominated by REST. However, Golgi provides a number of features that are absent in a REST implementation.

Synopsis:

-an end-point connection model (servers can initiate transactions to clients removing the need for client-server polls, this is absent in the client-server base model used by REST)

• management of the local send queue (including retry for failed transmissions, usually implemented by the developer)

• management of the delivery queue in our cloud based infrastructure (this infrastructure runs the company's telco-grade delivery platform)

• cross platform implementations (Android/iOS/J2SE/Javascript)

• battery efficiency on mobile

• ability to send native objects (i.e. send a Java object from an Android end-point and have it decoded as an Objective-C object on iOS)

As always there will be food and beer provided at the event :)

See you all on the 28th!