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Building SoundCloud on the SoundCloud API
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API Strategy & Practice Conference
March 05, 2013
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Building SoundCloud on the SoundCloud API
by Paul Osman @ Apistrat NYC (Feb. 2013)
API Strategy & Practice Conference
March 05, 2013
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BUILDING SOUNDCLOUD ON THE SOUNDCLOUD API API STRATEGY & PRACTICE
New York City, February 2013 Paul Osman / @paulosman
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HISTORY Launched in 2008 API launched alongside product 100% Rails
app
GROWTH 10 hours every minute Platform reaches over 180 million
people every month
THE OLD DAYS
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TECH Safe choices: Ruby, JavaScript, Go, Scala, Java, R Outliers:
node.js, Clojure, Haskell, Python
THE ROAD TO THE NEXT SOUNDCLOUD... Breaking up Rails codebase
into separate services Scale separate services seperately Teams can work independently, end-to-end Reduce technical debt
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SOUNDCLOUD NEXT
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HEY, THAT LOOKS LIKE AN API CLIENT!
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CONCLUSIONS APIs as a critical part of your infrastructure Public
API is a product, just like your site, mobile apps, etc Feel the pain of your partners Make sure your API is complete
DEVELOPER RESOURCES http://developers.soundcloud.com @SoundCloudAPI
WE'RE HIRING http://soundcloud.com/jobs
FIN Paul Osman / @paulosman @SoundCloudAPI