API Driven Development with Goliath

APIs Rule Everything Around Us. Its the glue that binds the internet operating system together and is partly responsible for the run-away success of a number of startups including Twitter, Facebook and Foursquare.

General purpose frameworks don’t always make for great tools when designing a Service Oriented Architecture or for building Hypermedia APIs. Sure, you can develop everything as a set of RESTful resources, but the temptation to mix presentation logic with your business logic is quite high and can lead to a cluttered and bloated codebase.

What we need is a dedicated API framework, one that speaks HTTP natively and is flexible enough to bend to the will of even the most demanding API designers.

Enter Goliath, the asynchronous ruby framework by Postrank Labs, that was created with the sole purpose of building and deploying Hypermedia APIs, ready to serve a massive amount of concurrent traffic. Built on Event Machine and Rack, this low level framework provides just enough structure and middleware to get you up and running and then gets out of your way.

In this session we’ll explore its feature set, talk a bit about good RESTful API design, and highlight some of the pros and cons of using Goliath instead of Sinatra or Rails for building your next Web Service.

Transcript

1. API Driven Development with Goliath Eric Marden @xentek
2. Hello, World { name: “Eric Marden”, twitter: “@xentek”, blog: “xentek.net”, self_link: “ericmarden.com” } 200 OK
3. Hypermedia APIs REST vs Hypermedia Discoverable Cacheable Linkable HATEOAS API Driven Development
4. Goliath what is it? how can I use it to build awesome hypermedia apis? how does it compare to...? tips, tricks, and gotchas
5. Goliath what is it?
6. Goliath asynchronous low level rack-based built on event machine (reactor pattern) ruby fibers native http parser
7. Goliath features
8. Goliath easy to learn easy to test rich middleware stack fast
9. Goliath request cycle
10. Goliath
12. Goliath
13. Goliath route map
14. Goliath
15. Goliath middleware
17. Goliath endpoint
19. Goliath how does it compare to…?
20. Goliath rails versus
21. Goliath sinatra versus
22. Goliath tips, tricks, and gotchas
23. Goliath models, modules, and objects OH MY
26. Goliath configuration
28. Goliath headers
29. Goliath
30. Goliath status codes
32. Goliath validation
33. Goliath Goliath::Rack::Validation::RequiredParam Goliath::Rack::Validation::RequiredValue Goliath::Rack::Validation::RequestMethod ...and many more
34. Goliath error handling
36. Goliath blocking the reactor
37. Goliath testing
39. KTHXBYE { name: “Eric Marden”, twitter: “@xentek”, blog: “xentek.net”, self_link: “ericmarden.com” } 410 GONE
40. Further Reading http://goliath.io http://designinghypermediaapis.com/ http://j.mp/rest-fielding-dissertation http://j.mp/api-only-apps-with-rails https://gimmebar.com/loves/xentek/tag/hypermedia http://httpstatus.es/