Presentation: "Making things Work Together"

Time: Wednesday 10:50 - 11:50

Location: Salon I

Abstract:
Trends indicate that the number of apps that rely on HTTP based APIs has been growing. Many players routinely serve several billion requests a day to apps that use HTTP APIs as a back-end. Though it is not trivial to scale up the servers, it is time to take a look at the client side which has just two needs - how to make sense of data from multiple APIs, and how to optimize the traffic to minimize latency, reduce bandwidth use, and
improve resiliency. In this talk, we will take a consuming app's perspective, and dive into how to bridge interoperability and address performance goals. We will use ql.io, an open-source node.js based HTTP gateway, as a way to demonstrate potential approaches.

Subbu Allamaraju, Programmer, ql.io

 Subbu  Allamaraju
Subbu Allamaraju is a Principal Member of Technical Staff at eBay where he focuses on improving the way HTTP is consumed by apps. Subbu is the creator and product owner of ql.io whose main goal is to ensure interoperability, dev agility, and performance. Subbu is also the author of O'Reilly's RESTful Web Services Cookbook that documents several techniques for using HTTP to build client and server apps.