The Cloud, more than just hosting (and buzzwords) by John Sheehan, given at NDC 2012

What cloud service APIs are and why you should use them.

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1. The Cloud
   More than hosting (and buzzwords)
   @johnsheehan
   

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2. restsharp.org
   

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3. api,jobs.com
   

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4. ifttt.com
   if this then that
   

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5. Twilio
   AppHarbor
   Stripe
   Xamarin
   

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6. Cloud
   \ˈklau̇d\8noun,8often8attributive
   Meaningless)buzzword)used
   by)companies)in)place)of)the)
   word)‘Internet’.
   Source: The internet, page 44.
   

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7. Cloud
   Compute,)network,)storage)
   and)service)infrastructure)
   offered)and)managed)by)a)
   thirdAparty)provider.
   Source: John Sheehan
   

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8. Amazon Web
   Services Azure
   AppEngine
   Heroku
   AppHarbor
   dotCloud
   AppFog
   CloudFoundry
   RackSpace Cloud
   Compute,)Storage)&))Network
   

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9. Amazon Web
   Services Azure
   AppEngine
   Heroku
   AppHarbor
   dotCloud
   AppFog
   CloudFoundry
   RackSpace Cloud
   Compute,)Storage)&))Network
   

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10. Cloud
    Compute,)network,)storage)
    and)service'infrastructure)
    offered)and)managed)by)a)
    thirdAparty)provider.
    Source: John Sheehan
    

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11. Cloud)Services
    Email SendGrid, Postmark, MailGun
    Telecom Twilio, Nexmo
    Realtime Pusher, PubNub, Spire.io, Superfeedr
    Social Facebook, Twitter, Foursquare
    Mobile Parse, StackMob, Chute
    Services Dropbox, GitHub, Google ______
    Workers Iron.io, MomentApp
    

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12. WHY?
    

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13. Equip you with
    a new capability.
    

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14. Instant scale.
    

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15. Data.
    

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16. Cloud service APIs
    let you focus on
    building your app,
    not infrastructure.
    

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17. WebHooks
    HTTP API
    (REST*)
    WebSockets, etc.
    Push data in.
    Pull data out.
    HALF DUPLEX
    Get notified.
    Interact in real time.
    FULL DUPLEX
    

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18. REST/HTTP APIs
    function(sendSms(to,(from,(body)({
    HTTP.post('/messages',(...);
    }
    200(OK
    {
    (id(:("sm123",
    (status(:("sent"
    }
    

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19. WEBHOOKS
    

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20. WEBHOOKS
    POST(http://yourserver.com/hook
    To=+15552223333
    From=+15551112222
    CallId=CA123
    200(OK
    
    (Thanks(for(calling!
    
    

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21. WEBSOCKETS, ETC.
    

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22. void%main()%{
    %%//%shut%up
    %%//%and%code
    }
    

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23. hurl.it
    

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24. requestb.in
    

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25. localtunnel.com
    

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26. ifttt.com
    

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27. getpebble.com
    

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28. supermechanical.com/twine
    

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