The Wonderful World of Webhooks

Short tech talk slot from Lead Developer 2016

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1. The Wonderful
   World of Webhooks
   Lorna Jane Mitchell,
   LeadDev 2016
   

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2. Webhooks in the Wild
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3. How APIs Work
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4. How APIs Work
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5. How APIs Work
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6. How Webhooks Work
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7. How Webhooks Work
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8. How Webhooks Work
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9. What About Time?
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10. APIs Over Time
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11. Webhooks Over Time
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12. Setup
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13. Setup
    • Subscribe
    • Publish
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14. Inside A Webhook
    Webhook for github wiki page created
    {
    "pages": [
    {
    "page_name": "Home",
    "title": "Home",
    "summary": null,
    "action": "created",
    ... and 111 more lines
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15. Inside A Webhook
    This hook will contain:
    • The pages that changed in the wiki
    • The repository
    • The owner of the repository
    • The user that sent this change
    Includes much hypermedia
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16. Inside A Webhook
    "owner": {
    "login": "baxterthehacker",
    "id": 6752317,
    "avatar_url": "https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/6752317?v=3",
    "url": "https://api.github.com/users/baxterthehacker",
    "html_url": "https://github.com/baxterthehacker",
    "gists_url": "https://api.github.com/users/baxterthehacker/gists{/gist_id}",
    "repos_url": "https://api.github.com/users/baxterthehacker/repos",
    "events_url": "https://api.github.com/users/baxterthehacker/events{/privacy}",
    "received_events_url": "https://api.github.com/users/baxterthehacker/received_events
    "type": "User",
    "site_admin": false
    }
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17. Receiving Webhooks
    • Store
    • Acknowledge
    • Process
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19. Thanks!
    Webhooks are awesome :)
    Contact me:
    • @lornajane
    • lorna.mitchell@uk.ibm.com
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