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The API is dead. Long live the protocol!

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September 20, 2013
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The API is dead. Long live the protocol!

Speech at JSConf.eu

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September 20, 2013

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Transcript

  1. The API is dead, long live the protocol or  how

     we  reinvent  messaging

  2. buddycloud

  3. None

  4. your client your API

  5. your client your API

  6. your client your API

  7. API: standalone protocol: very useful when you want to interconnect

  8. today the age of the quadrant once upon a time

    back to the future

  9. The ice cream of the internet Robert Scoble credit: http://www.flickr.com/photos/labyrinthx-2/

  10. we solved this with email

  11. [email protected] friend@flickr.com [email protected] let me count the brokenness

  12. so let’s build the future - requirements

  13. so let’s build the future - requirements 1. structured messages

  14. so let’s build the future - requirements 1. structured messages

    2. anyone can host it

  15. so let’s build the future - requirements 1. structured messages

    2. anyone can host it 3. reliable

  16. so let’s build the future - requirements 1. structured messages

    2. anyone can host it 3. reliable 4. easy to implement

  17. problem 1: addressing [email protected]

  18. [email protected] [email protected]

  19. query: _your-app-name._tcp.EXAMPLE.COM. result: IN SRV 5 0 443 server.EXAMPLE.COM. Problem

    2: discovering remote servers

  20. problem 3: discovering the API

  21. problem 3: discovering the API https://buddycloud.example.com:443/api

  22. webfinger: http://example.com/.well-known/API-server IANA service registry: http://www.iana.org/assignments/service-names- port-numbers

  23. Problem 4: fast server resync

  24. Problem 5: fast client resync

  25. Problem 5: fast client resync

  26. Problem 6: We still believe in privacy

  27. • Diaspora • Freedom box • pump.io • buddycloud •

    Mozilla persona • webRTC • &Yet personal cloud related projects

  28. •W3C incubator •IANA •IETF •XMPP Standards Foundation your next steps

  29. None

  30. once upon a time v1.0 (31 Oct): full messaging/web/Android v1.1

    WebRTC + channels v1.2 end-to-end encryption v1.3 Mozilla Persona integration used everywhere next

  31. let’s redesign messaging for the next 30 years