Webhooks Unconference Demo

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1. The Wonderful World of Webhooks Lorna Jane Mitchell, RESTFest Edinburgh 2016
2. Webhooks in the Wild @lornajane
3. How APIs Work @lornajane
4. How APIs Work @lornajane
5. How APIs Work @lornajane
6. How Webhooks Work @lornajane
7. How Webhooks Work @lornajane
8. How Webhooks Work @lornajane
9. What About Time? @lornajane
10. APIs Over Time @lornajane
11. Webhooks Over Time @lornajane
12. Live Demo: Github and Hubot :)
13. Demo Setup @lornajane
14. Demo Setup @lornajane
15. Demo Setup @lornajane
16. Demo Setup @lornajane
17. Demo Setup • One local IRC server https://github.com/jrosdahl/miniircd • Easy IRC client https://irssi.org/ • A chatty bot https://hubot.github.com/ (named Hugh) • Secure tunnel so webhooks can reach Hugh https://ngrok.com/ • GitHub repo to attach webhooks to: https://github.com/lornajane/demo/settings/hooks • The ngrok dashboard is here: http://localhost:4040 @lornajane
18. Webhooks in your Applications @lornajane
19. Publishing Webhooks How does this work? How does it work as the application scales up? What about when the connections slow down? @lornajane
20. Live Demo: Retro Guestbook App
21. Demo Setup @lornajane
22. Demo Setup • ngrok again - I'm running this demo locally and you can help http://ngrok.com • An endpoint that we can send webhooks to for testing purposes: http://requestb.in/ • Queue is RabbitMQ (https://www.rabbitmq.com/) • RabbitMQ's management plugin has a web interface: http://192.168.121.8:15672 • (comments also go into the database that powers the site) • Worker scripts to send any/all webhooks @lornajane
23. Webhooks ... are awesome :) @lornajane
24. Thanks! Slides: http://lornajane.net/resources Contact: • lorna.mitchell@uk.ibm.com • @lornajane @lornajane