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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.
John Sheehan
June 08, 2012
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The Cloud More than hosting (and buzzwords) @johnsheehan
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Twilio AppHarbor Stripe Xamarin
Cloud \ˈklau̇d\8noun,8often8attributive Meaningless)buzzword)used by)companies)in)place)of)the) word)‘Internet’. Source: The internet, page 44.
Cloud Compute,)network,)storage) and)service)infrastructure) offered)and)managed)by)a) thirdAparty)provider. Source: John Sheehan
Amazon Web Services Azure AppEngine Heroku AppHarbor dotCloud AppFog CloudFoundry
RackSpace Cloud Compute,)Storage)&))Network
Amazon Web Services Azure AppEngine Heroku AppHarbor dotCloud AppFog CloudFoundry
RackSpace Cloud Compute,)Storage)&))Network
Cloud Compute,)network,)storage) and)service'infrastructure) offered)and)managed)by)a) thirdAparty)provider. Source: John Sheehan
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
WHY?
Equip you with a new capability.
Instant scale.
Data.
Cloud service APIs let you focus on building your app,
not infrastructure.
WebHooks HTTP API (REST*) WebSockets, etc. Push data in. Pull
data out. HALF DUPLEX Get notified. Interact in real time. FULL DUPLEX
REST/HTTP APIs function(sendSms(to,(from,(body)({ HTTP.post('/messages',(...); } 200(OK { (id(:("sm123", (status(:("sent" }
WEBHOOKS
WEBHOOKS POST(http://yourserver.com/hook To=+15552223333 From=+15551112222 CallId=CA123 200(OK <Response> (<Say>Thanks(for(calling!</Say> </Response>
WEBSOCKETS, ETC.
void%main()%{ %%//%shut%up %%//%and%code }
hurl.it
requestb.in
localtunnel.com
ifttt.com
getpebble.com
supermechanical.com/twine