Learning to love web development the hard way

How to survive in a modern fast changing web development world and be sane and productive.

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1. 2018/02/21 Learning to love web development Bonus: creating a SaaS application with API Gateway The hard way
2. June 2015 Tyk 1 / About me Leonid Bugaev - Lead engineering at Tyk - Started with Rails back in 2005 - Switched to Go last years - Living a nomad life https://github.com/buger https://speakerdeck.com/buger @buger leo@tyk.io
3. June 2015 Tyk 2 / Why rails was so innovative? - Modular - Clear MVC model - Developer friendly language - It is different
4. June 2015 Tyk 3 / Hype is gone Rails is still the most popular web framework in the bay area by job openings in 2018 [1] [1] https://medium.com/@yoelblum/45935/demand-for-ruby-on-rails-is-still-huge-ea4434926c57
5. June 2015 Tyk 4 / Diversification It is not the Rails slowed down, but an industry grown a lot and became much more diversified and complex
6. June 2015 Tyk 5 / Web development now-days CLUSTERFUCK
7. June 2015 Tyk 6 / Increasing demands Every app now must integrate with everything, from smart refrigerator to kubernetes. From OpenID to Mutual TLS.
8. June 2015 Tyk 7 / Expectations You have a gem/package/module for everything.
9. June 2015 Tyk 8/ Reality - Tons of immature or abandoned code - Dependency issues - Turn off the main track and you are gone.
10. June 2015 Tyk 9/ Tip of the iceberg DEVELOPER MANAGEMENT REGULATOR REQUIRMENTS INTEGRATIONS ANALYTICS AUTH CORE
11. June 2015 Tyk 10/ That's not what I signed for THE REST
12. June 2015 Tyk 11/ Can you afford it? Why company like Twitter needs 3500 employees?? Because of “THE REST”, and because they can afford it.
13. June 2015 Tyk 12/ Solution - Find your Core - Delegate the rest
14. June 2015 Tyk 13/ Top most annoying things - Dealing with legacy systems - Collaboration between multiple teams - Constantly changing requirements - Any interaction with front-end - <insert yours>
15. June 2015 Tyk 14/ Engineering thinking - No one dreams of writing user registration system or CMS - Writing it first time fun, 10th time is a PITA
16. June 2015 Tyk 15/ API Gateway to help - Connecting everything to everything - Fits to any environment and workflow - Designed to solve all the side stuff with minimal engineer involvement
17. June 2015 Tyk 16/ Dealing with legacy systems - My old SAP app can’t do retries - Headers must be uppercase (WTF?) - Only old-school XML - We lost the source code!
18. June 2015 Tyk 17/ Collaboration between multiple teams
19. June 2015 Tyk 18/ Constantly changing requirements - We just passed another security certification, now we required to do Mutual TLS for all stack - Pls sign me up though ancient IDP platform using SAML protocol, signed by custom encryption. - JWT, JWE, JWS, HMAC…
20. June 2015 Tyk 19/ Any interaction with front-end Can you do the the same but combine output of all your REST APIs into a single call?
21. June 2015 Tyk 20/ Aren’t this a vendor lock in? - Technical dept is your main enemy - Most of the business die because focus on the wrong thing - Pick solutions which are flexible enough to be replaced
22. June 2015 Tyk 21/ Live session We are going to implement simple SaaS application, purely using API gateway, by having only the “core”. https://github.com/TykTechnologies/tyk-integration-example
23. June 2015 Tyk 22/ QA session Contacts leo@tyk.io