The Selenium and Appium projects are both platforms which allow for programmatic simulation of user interaction on Browsers and Mobile devices respectively, for testing purposes.

Part of the success of these pro...

Unless you were building in PHP, deploying a web app used to be a real

pain, but with the introduction of Platform as a Service (PaaS) like Heroku

our lives suddenly became a lot easier.

 Now 7 years after the...

Map Reduce is often associated with various data processing frameworks, but in reality it is a model for dealing with large, parallel computations. In this talk we will explore the fundamental concept behind Map Reduce, ...

Raw data is really hard to work with, especially when it comes in large quantities, and this is why most people don't realize the power they have at the tip of their fingers. Companies are being sold for billions because...

Gigya in an API-first company, enabling brands to connect with socially active consumers on multiple devices - web and mobile. Our API platform is handling thousands of requests per second, serving 700 enterprises and re...

Having a public API is a common approach when companies want to make the shift from being a solution and become a platform.
In the last year, while developing Outbrain's Amplify public API, we had dilemmas, we faced cha...

Service integration is a common problem for every business of sufficient size, regardless of industry. Whether you run a hotel chain, restaurant, or an airline, you always want to consume services (such as mass email, CR...

Interfaces are the faces of your company. Companies hire UX designers to make their websites easy to use, consistent, intuitive, and clean. These same companies often don't care about their API design; apparently "it wor...