Get in touch! [email protected]
What else you could do?
● Transfer song from Spotify to the Sonos
● Backup playlists
● Stream the music to remote locations
● Vote the songs added to the queue
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Case 2: Api aggregation
Bicing + Google Maps
Source: Carlos Mejía Greene https://www.flickr.com/photos/carlitos/3101121106/ CC BY-NC-SA 2.0
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Improvements
● Reduce transfer size
● Reduce roundtrips
● Improve accuracy by getting info
from multiple sources
● Improve API interface
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Api Aggregation
Mobile
app
Middleware
Web APIs
requests
responses
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Api Aggregation
Mobile
app
Middleware
Web APIs
requests
responses
http://techblog.netflix.com/2013/01/optimizing-netflix-api.html
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Demotime!
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How we improved?
Size Savings Response time
Original XML 131k ~0.7s
JSON 80k 39% ~0.7s
JSON with
distances
91k 30% ~0.7s
nearest 10 5k 96% ~0.8s
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What APIs to combine?
Hue + Google Calendar
Google Maps + Foursquare
Sonos + Last.fm
Dropbox + Github
Almost any, actually
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What do we get from it?
● As hackers we like to know what’s under the
hood
● Cross API
● We can ‘discover’ hidden APIs. :)
● It’s fun!
● We can improve performance by
aggregating multiple calls.
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Special Treat
Primavera Sound Festival 2014
fake apps on Google Play Store
real iOS app with a twist