https://speakerdeck.com/nickblah 2012-11-05 18:19:59 -0500 The role of APIs in renewable energy and energy efficiency The role of APIs in renewable energy and energy efficiency Thu, 25 Sep 2014 00:00:00 -0400 https://speakerdeck.com/nickblah/api-strategy-and-practice-how-apis-will-save-the-world https://speakerdeck.com/nickblah/api-strategy-and-practice-how-apis-will-save-the-world A micro and macro look at API projects at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory and Data.gov. A micro and macro look at API projects at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory and Data.gov. Fri, 25 Oct 2013 00:00:00 -0400 https://speakerdeck.com/nickblah/api-strategy-and-practice-conference-government-api-stuff https://speakerdeck.com/nickblah/api-strategy-and-practice-conference-government-api-stuff The labs have a lot of great data that we often need to share. There’s also a push from the White House to make data more open and machine readable within the government. Web service APIs can be an excellent way to easily share your data both externally and internally. However, if you’re building APIs, there are things to think through like API keys, access control, analytics, rate limiting, documentation, and more. But these are the boring parts of releasing and managing your APIs, so join us to find out how you can quickly leverage existing resources to minimize the amount of time you have to spend thinking about such things. This lets you can focus on the fun parts of actually sharing your data and seeing the benefits. So come hear about the basics of APIs, how they can benefit your team, and real-world success stories from NREL. Also hear about how we’ve teamed up with data.gov to launch api.data.gov, a free service aimed at helping federal agencies publish and manage their APIs in an easy way. Finally, learn about how all this relates to the Digital Government Strategy and the Open Data Policy, and how you can leverage these resources to more efficiently release APIs, fulfilling these policy requirements, but, more importantly, making your users happy. The labs have a lot of great data that we often need to share. There’s also a push from the White House to make data more open and machine readable within the government. Web service APIs can be an excellent way to easily share your data both externally and internally. However, if you’re building APIs, there are things to think through like API keys, access control, analytics, rate limiting, documentation, and more. But these are the boring parts of releasing and managing your APIs, so join us to find out how you can quickly leverage existing resources to minimize the amount of time you have to spend thinking about such things. This lets you can focus on the fun parts of actually sharing your data and seeing the benefits. So come hear about the basics of APIs, how they can benefit your team, and real-world success stories from NREL. Also hear about how we’ve teamed up with data.gov to launch api.data.gov, a free service aimed at helping federal agencies publish and manage their APIs in an easy way. Finally, learn about how all this relates to the Digital Government Strategy and the Open Data Policy, and how you can leverage these resources to more efficiently release APIs, fulfilling these policy requirements, but, more importantly, making your users happy. Wed, 07 Aug 2013 00:00:00 -0400 https://speakerdeck.com/nickblah/interlab-2013-opening-up-your-data-with-web-service-apis-and-how-to-make-this-easier https://speakerdeck.com/nickblah/interlab-2013-opening-up-your-data-with-web-service-apis-and-how-to-make-this-easier Abstracting Features Into Custom Reverse Proxies (Or: Making Better Lemonade From Chaos) Life isn't always simple. We often have to deal with a mishmash of applications, languages, and servers. How can we begin to standardize functionality across this chaos? Custom reverse proxies to the rescue! Using Ruby and EventMachine, learn how you can abstract high-level features and functionality into fast reverse proxies that can improve scalability, save time, and make the world happy. - See how we've applied this across a diverse set of web service APIs to standardize the implementation of authentication, request throttling, analytics, and more. - See how this can save development time, eliminate code duplication, make your team happy, make the public happy, and make you a hero. - See how this can be applied to any TCP-based application for a wide-variety of use cases. - Still think your situation is complicated? Learn about the U.S. Government's plans to standardize API access across the entire federal government. With some reverse proxy magic, this isn't quite as difficult or as foolhardy as it may first sound. It also comes with some nice benefits for both the public audience and government developers. Abstracting Features Into Custom Reverse Proxies (Or: Making Better Lemonade From Chaos) Life isn't always simple. We often have to deal with a mishmash of applications, languages, and servers. How can we begin to standardize functionality across this chaos? Custom reverse proxies to the rescue! Using Ruby and EventMachine, learn how you can abstract high-level features and functionality into fast reverse proxies that can improve scalability, save time, and make the world happy. - See how we've applied this across a diverse set of web service APIs to standardize the implementation of authentication, request throttling, analytics, and more. - See how this can save development time, eliminate code duplication, make your team happy, make the public happy, and make you a hero. - See how this can be applied to any TCP-based application for a wide-variety of use cases. - Still think your situation is complicated? Learn about the U.S. Government's plans to standardize API access across the entire federal government. With some reverse proxy magic, this isn't quite as difficult or as foolhardy as it may first sound. It also comes with some nice benefits for both the public audience and government developers. Thu, 01 Nov 2012 00:00:00 -0400 https://speakerdeck.com/nickblah/rubyconf-2012-custom-reverse-proxies https://speakerdeck.com/nickblah/rubyconf-2012-custom-reverse-proxies