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BUILDING SOUNDCLOUD ON THE SOUNDCLOUD API API STRATEGY & PRACTICE New York City, February 2013 Paul Osman / @paulosman

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HISTORY Launched in 2008 API launched alongside product 100% Rails app

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GROWTH 10 hours every minute Platform reaches over 180 million people every month

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THE OLD DAYS

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TECH Safe choices: Ruby, JavaScript, Go, Scala, Java, R Outliers: node.js, Clojure, Haskell, Python

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THE ROAD TO THE NEXT SOUNDCLOUD... Breaking up Rails codebase into separate services Scale separate services seperately Teams can work independently, end-to-end Reduce technical debt

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SOUNDCLOUD NEXT

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HEY, THAT LOOKS LIKE AN API CLIENT!

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CONCLUSIONS APIs as a critical part of your infrastructure Public API is a product, just like your site, mobile apps, etc Feel the pain of your partners Make sure your API is complete

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DEVELOPER RESOURCES http://developers.soundcloud.com @SoundCloudAPI

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WE'RE HIRING http://soundcloud.com/jobs

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FIN Paul Osman / @paulosman @SoundCloudAPI