Comments Off on Presentation : APIs for Internal Audiences – App Dev Conference

By daniel_jacobson, October 27, 2011 8:14 pm

This presentation was from the App Dev Conference in Santa Clara, CA on October, 27, 2011.

API programs, typically thought of as a public program to see what public developer communities can build with a company’s data, are becoming more and more critical to the success of mobile and device strategies. This presentation takes a look at Netflix’s and NPR’s strategies that lead to tremendous growth and discusses how Netflix plans to take this internal API strategy to the next level.

Comments Off on Presentation : Netflix API – BAPI 2011 – SF

By daniel_jacobson, October 5, 2011 11:32 pm

This is my presentation from the Business of APIs Conference in SF, held by Mashery (http://www.apiconference.com). This talk talks briefly about the history of the Netflix API, then goes into three main categories of scaling:

• 1. Using the cloud to scale in size and internationally
• 2. Using Webkit to scale application development in parallel to the flexibility afforded by the API
• 3. Redesigning the API to improve performance and to downscale the infrastructure as the system scales

When viewing these slides, please note that they are almost entirely image-based, so I have added notes for each slide to detail the talking points.