A Tale of Three APIs: REST, Async, and gRPC Face Off

Let's look into the world of API types and explore their respective benefits and disadvantages. We will compare and contrast the most common API types, including REST, async, and gRPC, and discuss where each excels. Attendees will gain a deeper understanding of how to choose the right API for their specific needs, taking into account factors such as performance and ease of integration. For the beginners, we'll cover a little bit of HTTP history and compare HTTP 1.1 and 2.0 as they relate to API development and progress.

Choosing the best API architecture for Your Next Mobile App

Let's look into the world of API types and explore their respective benefits and disadvantages. We will compare and contrast the most common API types, including REST, Async, and gRPC, and discuss where each excels. Attendees will gain a deeper understanding of how to choose the right API for their specific needs, taking into account factors such as performance and ease of integration. For the beginners, we'll cover a little bit of HTTP history and compare HTTP 1.1 and 2.0 as they relate to API development and progress.

Visualizing AI response with IoT lights

Let's build an entire application in 30 minutes that ties together two sources of AI (OpenAI ChatGPT, and Azure Cognitive Services) to control an IoT lightbulb.

The Chipmunk's Guide to Tech Industry Career Strategies

What do chipmunks and climate change have to do with getting a job in the tech industry? As a tech career coach, I'm going to explore chipmunk stress response as it pertains to the shifting tech industry job market.

Building and Testing a gRPC API from Scratch: Unleash the Potential with Postman

Let's walk through the process of developing a gRPC API from scratch, and looking at tooling and testing within Postman to assist your development process.

We'll build out a proto file and plan our message formats for a few endpoints to interact with an API to store funny jokes. We'll see the interesting things that Postman autogenerates on your behalf to increase your productivity, and then examine testing techniques to ensure your working API adheres to your specification.

A Tale of Three APIs: REST, Async, and gRPC Face Off

Let's delve into the world of API types and explore their respective benefits and disadvantages. We will compare and contrast the most common API types, including REST, Async, and gRPC, to see where each excels. Attendees will gain insight into how to choose the right API for their specific needs, considering factors such as performance and ease of integration.

The API-First World is for Non-Developers, too!

The world runs on APIs but there aren’t enough developers to build and link them together. Let’s explore ideas and workflows to improve team collaboration, and focus on bringing non-developer perspectives to the process. Join this session to improve your team’s output with no-code / low-code.

Discussion of no-code/low-code development tools, and how we can be more inclusive in our development processes by constructing tooling that helps non-developers get involved. Many perspectives and ideas are useful and helpful, but there are far more non-developers in the world that would love to be involved. How can we, as developers, build no-code/low-code tooling, or use existing no-code/low-code platforms, to get everyone involved?

Building Mock Servers for RESTful and GraphQL APIs to speed up cross-functional teams

Ever been blocked waiting on another team to finish their work so you can continue working on your own time-sensitive work? Let’s explore how to build mock servers, and generate client-side and server-side code from the API builder in Postman to kickstart your team.

Postman has been known for years as an API testing tool, but it does SOO much more. The API builder in Postman will generate a lot of tooling for your team, including documentation, mock servers, server-side and client-side code snippets, and so much more. Teams can share environments, fork and merge changes with one another, as both a web application or desktop application. This workshop will dive into many of these features, starting with the API builder, and explore tools like Swagger/OpenAPI imports, and focus mainly on mock servers using some example RESTful and GraphQL APIs to get teams started with their work.

This is a hands-on workshop, so a laptop or large-screen computing device like a tablet will be required. You can register for a free Postman account using GitHub or Google credentials with no additional verification steps. All documentation and instructions will be provided at the workshop.

When "Meets Expectations" actually exceeds expectations: a deep dive on API Contract Testing

Let's explore several ways you can add testing to your API-First design to ensure conformity to your company's governance rules, and to the OpenAPI specification standards.

We'll be exploring these testing methods using Postman, but the core concepts can be utilized in multiple environments. The target audience will have some experience in testing or in API design.