One of the major concerns around cloud computing is lock-in but can open APIs solve this problem. Are they enough to create portability and interoperability between providers? Can Open APIs mean that a proprietary platform can be a friend to the open source world?
Google Health is an application with an open API, and its long term success depends on the developer community building useful applications that help people achieve their health goals. In this talk, we will describe this model and the role of developers who create specialized solutions - especially mobile ones - for people with specific health needs.
Google App Engine is an development & hosting platform that lets you build & deploy web applications on Google's high-traffic infrastructure. You only need to upload your code: no more worrying about machines, storage, scalability! This tutorial introduces attendees to its architecture & various service APIs. In the hands-on lab, you'll build+deploy a real app to the cloud using Python in minutes!
At OSCON 2008, NPR launched our first API. Two years later, the API has grown tremendously and has become the centerpiece of NPR's digital strategy. Come hear how and why NPR has invested so much into API's, how people are using them, how they have dramatically improved our mobile offerings, and about our vision for open source.
What do open data and open source software have in common? User
rights, licensing, transparency, community, world-changing... open
data shares a lot with the open source movement, but it has new
challenges too. Come learn how open data and open source work
together, and how the open data community is learning from open
source's history and experience.
Google App Engine is an development & hosting platform that lets you build & deploy web applications on Google's high-traffic infrastructure. You only need to upload your code: no more worrying about machines, storage, scalability! This session introduces attendees to its architecture & various service APIs. Time-permitting we'll go through a simple example using Python.
Launch an API that can survive! Learn about unexpected load recovery techniques, analytic best practices and testing approaches to make sure your API runs smoothly & thrives with these tips from the trenches. Clay Loveless is Mashery's Chief Architect, the leading API management solution provider. With over 100 high-volume API customers, Mashery manages a broad range of enterprise API deployments.
