making hacker’s life easier at hackathons (3scale at barcelona musichackdays)
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Making Hacker’s Life Easier at Hackathons
Barcelona Music Hack Day 2014
by
Manfred Bortenschlager (@ManfredBo) API Evangelist, 3scale.net
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Integrating APIs to increase functionality
My app
Maybe many others…
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Quickly implement APIs
Authenticate Test & Debug No time for backend
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Need a prototype working...
… in a really short period of time
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APItools is here to help
{Hackathon} + = Developer Happiness
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What is APItools ?
1. Managing & Monitoring APIs
2. Modifying API calls
apitools.com
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How does it work ?
My app APItools
★ Manage APIs★ Test & Debug★ Modify API traffic★ Analytics
requests
responses
Web APIs
Others…
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Practical usage of APItools
at Hackathons
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APItools use cases
1. Authentication / key sharing
2. Data format conversion
3. (Add caching to deal with rate limits)
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APItools use cases
1. Authentication / key sharing
2. Data format conversion
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Demo flow
My App
Signup & get API key
Test APIs
Con
figur
e
Test
aga
in
Mon
itor
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Demo flow
1. Create account at API provider and get key
2. Test API with POSTMAN
3. Configure APItools
4. Test API with POSTMAN via APItools
5. Analyse in APItools
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Demo“Authentication / key sharing”
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Benefits
No need to add key to URL (less errors)
No need to share keys with others teams or
members
One place to manage all keys
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APItools use cases
1. Authentication / key sharing
2. Data format conversion
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Demo flow
Get bicing API endpoints(Somehow…)
ConfigureGet XML response
Get JSON response
Develop middleware
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Demo flow
1. Configure bicing API endpoint in APItools
2. Get XML response in POSTMAN
3. Create transformation middleware in APItools
4. Get JSON response in POSTMAN
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Demo“Data format conversion”
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Benefits
Customize returned data
Change quality (transform, adapt)
Change quantity (reduce load)
Out-of-the-Box API Management
Out-of-the-Box API Management
Out-of-the-Box API Management
Happy Hacking!
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