The Cloud, more than just hosting (and buzzwords) by John Sheehan, given at NDC 2012

What cloud service APIs are and why you should use them.

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1. The Cloud More than hosting (and buzzwords) @johnsheehan
2. restsharp.org
3. api,jobs.com
4. ifttt.com if this then that
5. Twilio AppHarbor Stripe Xamarin
6. Cloud \ˈklau̇d\8noun,8often8attributive Meaningless)buzzword)used by)companies)in)place)of)the) word)‘Internet’. Source: The internet, page 44.
7. Cloud Compute,)network,)storage) and)service)infrastructure) offered)and)managed)by)a) thirdAparty)provider. Source: John Sheehan
8. Amazon Web Services Azure AppEngine Heroku AppHarbor dotCloud AppFog CloudFoundry RackSpace Cloud Compute,)Storage)&))Network
9. Amazon Web Services Azure AppEngine Heroku AppHarbor dotCloud AppFog CloudFoundry RackSpace Cloud Compute,)Storage)&))Network
10. Cloud Compute,)network,)storage) and)service'infrastructure) offered)and)managed)by)a) thirdAparty)provider. Source: John Sheehan
11. Cloud)Services Email SendGrid, Postmark, MailGun Telecom Twilio, Nexmo Realtime Pusher, PubNub, Spire.io, Superfeedr Social Facebook, Twitter, Foursquare Mobile Parse, StackMob, Chute Services Dropbox, GitHub, Google ______ Workers Iron.io, MomentApp
12. WHY?
13. Equip you with a new capability.
14. Instant scale.
15. Data.
16. Cloud service APIs let you focus on building your app, not infrastructure.
17. WebHooks HTTP API (REST*) WebSockets, etc. Push data in. Pull data out. HALF DUPLEX Get notified. Interact in real time. FULL DUPLEX
18. REST/HTTP APIs function(sendSms(to,(from,(body)({ HTTP.post('/messages',(...); } 200(OK { (id(:("sm123", (status(:("sent" }
19. WEBHOOKS
20. WEBHOOKS POST(http://yourserver.com/hook To=+15552223333 From=+15551112222 CallId=CA123 200(OK <Response> (<Say>Thanks(for(calling!</Say> </Response>
21. WEBSOCKETS, ETC.
22. void%main()%{ %%//%shut%up %%//%and%code }
23. hurl.it
24. requestb.in
25. localtunnel.com
26. ifttt.com
27. getpebble.com
28. supermechanical.com/twine