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LIVE DEMO End-to-end API Management using IBM API Connect – Sami Koivisto

18 May 2016 – Posted by Jarkko Moilanen

Come and see how you can utilize free IBM API Connect Essentials from Bluemix to your end-to-end API management scenario. IBM API Connect delivers a complete solution across the Create + Run + Secure + Manage set of capabilities that can be deployed on-premise in an enterprise’s data center, or in the cloud. API Connect allows businesses as API providers to integrate the most important features that are necessary to enable the three most significant players in the API economy: application developers, business owners, and IT personnel. After the session it’s possible for you to register to IBM Bluemix and start your API Journey.

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Build and manage a Serverless API – Nicolas Grenié

4 May 2016 – Posted by Jarkko Moilanen

There is currently a major shift sweeping over the software industry. We went from monolithic apps, to API-driven apps, and now software engineers are breaking their apps into “micro-services”. Managing and connecting those different micro-services could be a hassle for DevOps. AWS offers an interesting service with Lambda that let you create microservices easily for a very cheap price. With the recent announcement of the API gateway, it lets you create a 100% serverless microservice-based infrastructure for your API and app.

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APIs That Will Love You – Nada Jasikova

17 April 2016 – Posted by Jarkko Moilanen

Join me for an API life cycle walkthrough. We’ll start with an initial API design and collaborate on it with others on GitHub. We’ll iterate on the design and verify the prototype makes sense before going any further. Finally, we’ll test the API implementation and show how to make sure the API documentation is always up to date.

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How to boost data driven business by harmonizing city APIs – Annukka Varteva

16 April 2016 – Posted by Jarkko Moilanen

Come and learn how six Finnish cities are opening up data and APIs to boost data driven business. Especially, you will see how the the six largest cities in Finland cooperate to build up harmonized APIs, how cities go API-first with their service development and how companies can utilize data to create new business opportunities. You will also learn why user experience and partner ecosystems are key components for success.

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Introducing Babel - A new interface description language – Ken Elkabany

15 April 2016 – Posted by Jarkko Moilanen

The Dropbox API recently underwent a major revision (v2). The cornerstone of the new API was the introduction of Babel, a new interface description language (IDL). Babel specifications are used to divide the API into namespaces, define routes and their input and output datatypes, and document functionality. Babel generators are used to publish public and private documentation, validate all input/output from our servers, and generate client SDKs for Python, .NET, Java, JS, and Swift.

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The role of APIs in Holland's biggest IT project ever – Dimitri van Hees

14 April 2016 – Posted by Jarkko Moilanen

The Dutch Environmental Act is one of the largest legislative acts since the establishment of The Netherlands in 1815 and the largest government IT challenge in its history. Basically it means that 26 acts (consisting of 4,700 articles) are integrated into one act (with 349 articles), making it easier for everyone to see what is allowed at a certain location.

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Securing Public Services with Blockchain – Ivo Lõhmus

23 March 2016 – Posted by Jarkko Moilanen

Ivo is program manager for public and defense sector in Guardtime, working mostly with Estonian government on integration projects - doing case studies and pilots for adopting blockchain-based security solutions. I have engineering background and have been previously working mostly in Telco area.

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API - Lego for developers - Giuliano Iacobelli

20 March 2016 – Posted by Jarkko Moilanen

The dream of easily reusable components is an old one in programming dating back to the emergence of object oriented programming in the 1960s (yes, that’s the 60s and thus half a century ago). The truth is it never really worked. Not in a way that transformed programming.

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Visual meta programming and APIs – Mika Karaila

16 March 2016 – Posted by Jarkko Moilanen

Node-red based demonstrative talk how modern technology can be used to create applications that can be generated run-time and instantiated remotely. Industrial Internet coming to real life in practice. API interface documented as programmed and used to build service interfaces to bind systems together.

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Onboarding to X-Road with Joint X-Road community & Know-how materials related to X-Road - Karri Niemelä & Heiko Vainsalu

26 February 2016 – Posted by Jarkko Moilanen

Finnish and Estonian X-Road communities joined forces last year and decided to establish joint global X-Road community. Karri Niemelä is current Community Manager. Karri will demonstrate how community works and how it has helped businesses to onboard X-Road with tools such as integration patterns with code examples.

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Venue and date confirmed!

3 February 2016 – Posted by Jarkko Moilanen

The Scandic API Days venue and date have been confirmed! We will be running the conference at the Tampere Hall Congress and Concert Centre in Tampere on the 18th-19th of May 2016.

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