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Building SoundCloud on the SoundCloud API

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Building SoundCloud on the SoundCloud API

by Paul Osman @ Apistrat NYC (Feb. 2013)

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Transcript

  1. BUILDING SOUNDCLOUD ON THE SOUNDCLOUD API API STRATEGY & PRACTICE

    New York City, February 2013 Paul Osman / @paulosman
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  4. HISTORY Launched in 2008 API launched alongside product 100% Rails

    app

  5. GROWTH 10 hours every minute Platform reaches over 180 million

    people every month

  6. THE OLD DAYS

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  9. TECH Safe choices: Ruby, JavaScript, Go, Scala, Java, R Outliers:

    node.js, Clojure, Haskell, Python

  10. 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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  12. SOUNDCLOUD NEXT

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  14. HEY, THAT LOOKS LIKE AN API CLIENT!

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  17. 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

  18. DEVELOPER RESOURCES http://developers.soundcloud.com @SoundCloudAPI

  19. WE'RE HIRING http://soundcloud.com/jobs

  20. FIN Paul Osman / @paulosman @SoundCloudAPI