Todd Brackley

Todd Brackley

Todd actively works with startups (and corporates if he has to) to leverage a REST style of architecture to effectively solve business and IT problems. He is a co-founder of Hypr.

This is Todd's first RESTFest and coming all the way over from New Zealand Aotearoa is really interested in seeing what others are up to practice.

• http://twitter.com/toddbNZ
• http://linkedin.com/in/toddbrackley

Proposed Talks

The Humble Browser Challenge (to the server): my top ten tests

• Type: 5in5
• Level: Basic
• Description: There is a current anti-pattern occurring in implementing hypermedia APIs. That “REST” clients must be coded into the browser—for example, as a plugin specific to the media type. It’s an optimisation (and optimisations are needed but not as the baseline). The anti-pattern is not the client per se but rather the server. The client needs to compensate for the server not being REST_ful_—so you put “more REST” into the client. Based on this insight, the generic, humble browser is therefore a perfect client to start measuring the REST level of the server that the API wants to support. So I thought that I'd list my top ten ways to measure how well your API is going.
• Background: A browser with addons: header negotiation and JSON viewing and clicking
• Slides: TBA