API Meetup #14, Hosted by Runscope in San Francisco

Who is using web hooks?

A number of people have started using web hooks. Some consciously, some out of pragmatism. And that's a good sign. Let's reinforce this pattern... implement web hooks and join this party. (and our API Meetup)

https://webhooks.pbworks.com/w/page/13385124/FrontPage

We hope you will plan to join our first API Meetup in 2015. The theme for this meeting is webhooks, and we will have 3 speakers beginning with an introduction by Neil Mansilla. Perhaps some of you will be in SF for DeveloperWeek http://developerweek.com/ , or Node.js. If so our meeting is on Tuesday night and it will be great to see you there.

Agenda:

5:30 - 6:00 PM Networking

6:00 - 6:15 PM Speaker #1, Neil Mansilla, Developer Relations at Runscope

6:15 - 7:00 PM Speaker #2, Travis McChesney, Director of Engineering at Cloud Elements

7:00 - 7:15 PM Networking Break

7:15 - 8:00 PM Speaker #3, Deepesh Dwivedi, Technical Lead for the Webhooks platform at PayPal

Tips and Tricks for Debugging Webhooks, Neil Mansilla, Runscope

Bio: Neil heads up developer relations at Runscope, the API monitoring and testing company. Prior to Runscope, Neil was the lead evangelist at Mashery, helping dozens of enterprise platforms with improving platform developer experience (DX), API design, and developer outreach.

Building Event Driven API Services Using Webhooks, Travis McChesney, Director of Engineering, Cloud Elements

How do you build and use user defined callback URLs (known as Webhooks) to notify your users of events that occurred on your system? Or use those URLs to get remote notification from API connected systems you use?

Using Webhooks is becoming more common as APIs become essential to all programming models. We will cover four common usage models: API capture, TCP Tunneling, Dynamic DNS and Remote Development

Bio: As the director of engineering at Cloud Elements, my primary responsibilities are focused around resource management and planning. Further responsibilities include coordination of the development team with the QA team to ensure proper testing, and product release management. In this position, I am still able to perform many of the same roles as the senior engineer position, including development as needed, and operations. http://www.linkedin.com/pub/travis-mcchesney/27/4a2/313

Webhooks in Payments, Deepesh Dwivedi, Technical Lead for the Webhooks Platform at PayPal

Agenda includes: The Need for webhooks in Payments, IPN to Webhooks, Elements of Webhooks platform, Security, Events/Errors APIs and a Demo of webhooks @ PayPal

Bio: Deepesh Dwivedi is the Technical Lead for the Webhooks platform at PayPal. He is responsible for end to end architecture, design and implementation of the Webhooks platform. More details about Deepesh can be found at: https://www.linkedin.com/in/deepeshdwivedi