Building Your API for Longevity - Mike Stowe @Mulesoft,

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Agenda:

- Pre-talk social time, start talks by 7:30

- Recap of last meetup

- Rules of engagement for new attendees

- Speakers

- API-related jobs available from members

- Post-talks social time

Speakers: Mike Stowe @Mulesoft

Building Your API for Longevity

Description: One of the greatest challenges to developing an API is ensuring that your API lasts. After all, you don’t want to have to release and manage multiple versions of your API just because you weren’t expecting users to use it a certain way, or because you didn’t anticipate far enough down the roadmap. In this session we’ll talk about the challenge of API Longevity, as well as ways to increase your API lifecycle including having a proper mindset, careful design, agile user experience and prototyping, best design practices including hypermedia, and the challenge of maintaining persistence.
Bio: Michael Stowe is a professional, Zend Certified Engineer with over 10 years experience building applications for law enforcement, the medical field, nonprofits, and numerous industrial companies. Over the last two years he has been focused on APIs and ways to improve industry standards and efficiency. He now works for MuleSoft, a company on the leading edge of API development and management, as well as SOA/ ESB architectures. You can view slides from his other talks at http://mikestowe.com/slides or follow him: @mikegstowe