Conference: Jun 26-28, 2017
Workshops: Jun 29-30, 2017
Track: Next Gen APIs: Designs, Protocols, and Evolution
Today, systems rely heavily APIs, whether it be a public APIs or internal APIs between microservices. In this track, we will highlight tools and techniques for public API design and evolution, as well as governance of APIs. We will also cover modern challenges of API design for microservices: binary vs. text-based protocols, debugging, and graph-based APIs.
Katharina Probst leads engineering teams at Netflix. She is responsible for the Netflix API, which helps bring Netflix streaming to millions of people around the world. Prior to joining Netflix, she was in the cloud computing team at Google, where she saw cloud computing from the provider side. Her interests include scalable, distributed systems, APIs, cloud computing, and building effective and successful teams. She also holds a PhD in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University.
by Chris Roche
Core Libraries Engineer @Lyft
by Christopher Burnett
Core Libraries Engineer @Lyft
With today's commonplace polyglot architectures, taming service APIs can be challenging. At Lyft, gRPC enforces a common protocol and types to solidify communication between backend services. How can we bring this same consistency to RESTful services and frontends?
In this talk, we will cover how we extended the Protocol Buffer (PB) IDL to create unified APIs and data models. From validation logic to automatic logging and statistics, PBs allow us to speed up development across our Go...
by Karthik Ramgopal
Application Infrastructure @LinkedIn
by Aditya Modi
Staff Software Engineer @LinkedIn
LinkedIn uses a unified API server to power our new flagship experience on all platforms (desktop web, mobile web, iOS and Android). The API and clients are released using a completely automated continuous release and deployment pipeline, to enable a rapidly evolving product.
We explore our original ideas behind API modeling, the challenges we’ve faced, and how we are evolving our modeling strategy over time based on our learnings. We will present a use-case study of building the...
by Cameron Waeland
Software Engineer @Compass
At Compass we have seen a dramatic evolution in our API over the last 18 months. We have doubled the number of backend services we use and transitioned from a relative "mess" of different API programming patterns and technologies to a unified API architecture that is used across web and mobile. Along the way we have dramatically improved developer quality of life with improved API discoverability, consistency and maintainability.
In this talk, we will discuss our evolution - both the...
by Bryan Kane
Software Engineer @Coursera
Coursera's platform is composed of hundreds of APIs, implemented across dozens of services by various engineering teams. Our client engineers have faced many challenges while using these APIs, especially around discoverability and assembly of data from various services. We’re working to solve these problems by migrating all client data access from REST to GraphQL.
Our path to GraphQL is different than most -- instead of manually adapting each of our REST APIs for GraphQL, we built a...
by Mohamed El-Geish
Sr Director of Engineering @Workfit
When faced with a blank canvas and numerous API design decisions to make at the start of a new project or a new company, how does one go about that? Finding the design fit for APIs — private and public alike — is usually a pursuit aided by experience and reflections. In this talk, we explore lessons learned at big companies like Microsoft and LinkedIn, and adapt the insights drawn from them to fit a fast-growing startup.
API design choices for green-field projects subsume a wide...
Tracks
Monday, 26 June
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Microservices: Patterns & Practices
Practical experiences and lessons with Microservices.
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Java - Propelling the Ecosystem Forward
Lessons from Java 8, prepping for Java 9, and looking ahead at Java 10. Innovators in Java.
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High Velocity Dev Teams
Working Smarter as a team. Improving value delivery of engineers. Lean and Agile principles.
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Modern Browser-Based Apps
Reactive, cross platform, progressive - webapp tech today.
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Innovations in Fintech
Technology, tools and techniques supporting modern financial services.
Tuesday, 27 June
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Architectures You've Always Wondered About
Case studies from the most relevant names in software.
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Developer Experience: Level up Your Engineering Effectiveness
Trends, tools and projects that we're using to maximally empower your developers.
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Chaos & Resilience
Failures, edge cases and how we're embracing them.
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Stream Processing at Large
Rapidly moving data at scale.
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Building Security Infrastructure
How our industry is being attacked and what you can do about it.
Wednesday, 28 June
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Next Gen APIs: Designs, Protocols, and Evolution
Practical deep-dives into public and internal API design, tooling and techniques for evolving them, and binary and graph-based protocols.
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Immutable Infrastructures: Orchestration, Serverless, and More
What's next in infrastructure. How cloud function like lambda are making their way into production.
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Machine Learning 2.0
Machine Learning 2.0, Deep Learning & Deep Learning Datasets.
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Modern CS in the Real World
Applied, practical, & real-world dive into industry adoption of modern CS.
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Optimizing Yourself
Maximizing your impact as an engineer, as a leader, and as a person.
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Ask Me Anything (AMA)
