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Erik Wilde

Erik Wilde is Director of Technologies for CA Technologies, and part of CA's API Academy. His main interest is in the design and management of API landscapes and the problems that companies are facing when they want to control their API architecture, but also want to make sure they allow it to evolve and do not stifle innovation.

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Proposed Talks

Documenting APIs and Web Concepts

• Type: Feature Talk
• Level: Intermediate
• Description: Most REST designs are rooted in Web Architecture by using certain foundations that are provided by the numerous standards that define the Web's surface. These Web Concepts provide the uniform glue that make RESTful design so powerful. This talk presents the challenge of on the one hand documenting "an API", while on the other hand ideally it should seamlessly blend into the interlinked set of Web-accessible resources.
• Background: NA
• Slides: TBA

Registries as Resources

• Type: 5in5
• Level: Intermediate
• Description: Many concepts that are used in RESTful APIs have open and evolving sets of values (a simple example is a language tag, which is usually treated as something that conforms to the ISO-managed set of registered languages). This talk proposes that registries should become more common design patterns for RESTful APIs, because they clearly and cleanly separate the stable part of a design from an open and evolving part, which not only can be treated as a resource itself, but because of that also lends itself to simple reuse across services.
• Background: NA
• Slides: TBA