making hacker’s life easier at hackathons (3scale at barcelona musichackdays)

Making Hacker’s Life Easier at Hackathons

Barcelona Music Hack Day 2014

by

Manfred Bortenschlager (@ManfredBo) API Evangelist, 3scale.net

Get in touch! [email protected] @ManfredBo

Integrating APIs to increase functionality

My app

Maybe many others…


Quickly implement APIs

Authenticate Test & Debug No time for backend


Need a prototype working...

… in a really short period of time


APItools is here to help

{Hackathon} + = Developer Happiness


What is APItools ?

1. Managing & Monitoring APIs

2. Modifying API calls

apitools.com


How does it work ?

My app APItools

★ Manage APIs★ Test & Debug★ Modify API traffic★ Analytics

requests

responses

Web APIs

Others…


Practical usage of APItools

at Hackathons


APItools use cases

1. Authentication / key sharing

2. Data format conversion

3. (Add caching to deal with rate limits)


APItools use cases




Demo flow

My App

Signup & get API key

Test APIs

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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


Demo“Authentication / key sharing”


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


APItools use cases




Demo flow

Get bicing API endpoints(Somehow…)

ConfigureGet XML response

Get JSON response

Develop middleware


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


Demo“Data format conversion”


Benefits

Customize returned data

Change quality (transform, adapt)

Change quantity (reduce load)

Out-of-the-Box API Management

Happy Hacking!

@apitools - [email protected]@ManfredBo

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