api services: building apps that stand out

API Services – Building apps that stand outPersonal | Useful | Fast | Engaging

Alan Ho

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Agenda

• Getting your app to stand out

• How your backend gets in the way

• Show you how Apigee solves your backend complexity


Getting your app to stand out

• Personal

• Useful

• Fast

• Engaging


So you start building an app

Alan Ho

Catherine - need help to streamline slide 4 - 8, and convey the chaos.Coloring might be an issue


Adding pictures


Going native


Integrating identity management


Increasing engagement


The app is the tip of the iceberg

Your App

App Servers

Legacy Systems

SQL DBs

APNS / GCM

NoSQL

CDN

Alan Ho

Are you good with this picture ?I will add the attribution of the photo.


Hiding the complexity with an API

Legacy Backend

API Proxy

Transform Users MgmtSocial Location

Push Datastore 3rd Party Backend

Single API

Alan Ho

1. Need to make the Single API float up - I tried to do it myself, but could not make the graphics look good. Need some Catherine magic if possible.2. The rest of grey boxes to be consistent with slides 4-8


Employee and Conference apps

Legacy Backend

API Proxy

Transform Users Mgmt.Social Location

Push Datastore 3rd Party

Backend

Single API

Alan Ho

Bottom box changes per slide 10


Session Details – Making it fast

Datastore

GET /sessions

GET /sessions/keynote/speaking


Session Details – Making it fast

Datastore

GET /sessions

GET /session/<…>/speaking

Proxy

GET /SessionMashup

Build aggregate

Populate Cache


Employee and Conference apps – Personal | Useful | Fast | Engaging

Legacy Backend

API Proxy

Transform Users Mgmt.Social Location

Push Datastore 3rd Party

Backend

Single API

Alan Ho

Bottom box changes per slide 10


Next Steps

• Attend the Coder Workshop

• Meet us at the Internet of Things Booth

Thank you

Backup Slides (In case things don’t work)

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Short Demo

User Management Data Backend Proxy Push


Conference App & Employee App


User Management


Datastore – Custom Collections


Datastore - Relationships


Node.js Mashup for Fast APIs


Push Notifications

api services: building apps that stand out

Technology

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