I attended the Austin Homegrown API meet up at Wright Bros and Brew last week. Titled “Where the Rubber meets the Road,”—heh—there were about 25-30 people there, about half API-oriented and half car-oriented. Honestly, with interfaces and integration as a theme, all attendees were API-oriented. One of the people there simply to network had lunch with […]
Playing with technology
One of the greatest parts of my job is getting to learn, write, learn write in a never-ending pattern. I got to play with Docker Swarm on our Carina offering at Rackspace and wrote up this blog post. It’s a tutorial for using Carina to create a Jawbone App with node.js. You could see the […]
REST API Analysis: How To Size Endpoints Using Command-Line Tools
For both OpenStack and Rackspace cloud APIs, we use WADL, Web Application Description Language, to build an API reference listing for all REST API calls. In a previous post, I discussed how the reference pages at http://developer.openstack.org/api-ref.html were made with a WADL source and a Maven plugin, clouddocs-maven-plugin. (Updated to add: in 2023, you would use OpenAPI Specification […]