How Hackathons Impact APIs

By Alex Gaber @ API Strategy & Practice Conference
San Francisco, October 23-24-25, 2013

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1.   Hackathons     APIs  in  the   Trenches…  
2. Hackathon  Stories     Going  from  API  -­‐>  APP  
3. My  First  Hackathon  –  Factual  API  (2011)  
4. My  First  Hackathon  –  Factual  (2011)  
5. A  few  weeks  ago…     Quit  my  day  job,     …  and  went  to  a  hackathon  
6. HP  Hackathon  a  few  weeks  ago….  
7. And  today  another   hackathon  was   announced...  
8. Biggest  Hackathon  ever..  
9. Maybe  make  Hackathons  a   full  Lme  job?    
10. Is  a  full  Lme  hackathoner   the  person  you  want   building  on  your  APIs?    
11. “will  you  come  be  our   evangelist?”    
12. All  my  old  hackathon  projects  
13. Why  hack  and     why  APIs?  
14. •  Worked  at  Mashery  as  Sales  Engineer   •  Worked  at  Alcatel  Lucent  as  Evangelist   for  mobile  tool  (Open  Plug)  and  Telco   API  Evangelist   •  Worked  at  Layer  7  as  API  Evangelist   •  Currently  a  mobile  app  developer,   architecture  consultant  and  trainer  
15. Why  Hackathons  are   leading  a  Business   RevoluAon  
16. Waterfall Iterative Agile Scrum Evolving  SoDware  Methodologies  
17. APIs  Enable  a  Leaner  Startup   Intrapreneur  
18. Hack  your  OrganizaAon   • Rapid  Prototyping   • Get  inspired   • Execute  on  Ideas  
19. Back  on  Topic…     Going  from  API  -­‐>  APP  
20. How to go from Mobile Web to Native? A multiple phone web based application framework is a software framework that is designed to support the development of phone applications that are written as embedded dynamic websites and may leverage native phone capabilities, like geo data or contact lists. From Wikipedia
21. What  IdenAfies  a  Hybrid  NaAve  App?   •   Non-­‐naAve  UI  Controls   •   Slow  Performance   •   Lack  of  Snappiness   •   Available  on  All  PlaQorms   •   Built  Quickly  
22. Why  I  believe  Cross  PlaQorm  will  win   •   Fast  development   •   Leverage  Javascript  knowledge  on   Mobile   •   Lots  of  VC  dollars  invested  in  it   •   Passionate  technical  founders  of   startups   •   We  got  inspired  by  hackathons…  
23. What  tools  out  there   enable  our   organizaLon  to  take   APIs  and  make  Apps?  
24. How to go from Mobile Web to Hybrid Native?  
25. PhoneGap Architecture Explained  
26. Mobile UI Frameworks
27. Mobile App Specific IDEs
28. What  about  ge[ng   my  APIs  integrated   into  my  apps?  
29. InnovaAve  Tools  like  Appery.io  
30. Mobile Backend as a Service – What? Feature   FuncAonality   IdenAty   SSO,  User  Mgmt,  Auth  at  API  Layer   Persistence   Offline  Mode,  Data  Syncing,  Caching   Messaging   Push  NoLficaLons,  Email,  SMS   OrchestraAon   Server  Side  Code,  API  IntegraLon  
31. Mobile Backend Providers
32. APIs  -­‐>  Apps     Hackathons!!  
33. QuesLon  and  Answer   Thank  you     @intalex