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Hackathons

APIs in the Trenches…

Hackathon Stories

Going from API -> APP

My First Hackathon – Factual API (2011)

My First Hackathon – Factual (2011)

A few weeks ago…

Quit my day job,

… and went to a hackathon

HP Hackathon a few weeks ago….

And today another hackathon was announced...

Biggest Hackathon ever..

Maybe make Hackathons a full time job?

Is a full time hackathoner the person you want

building on your APIs?

“will you come be our evangelist?”

All my old hackathon projects

Why hack and why APIs?

• Worked at Mashery as Sales Engineer• Worked at Alcatel Lucent as Evangelist

for mobile tool (Open Plug) and Telco API Evangelist

• Worked at Layer 7 as API Evangelist

• Currently a mobile app developer, architecture consultant and trainer

Why Hackathons are leading a Business

Revolution

Waterfall

Iterative

Agile

Scrum

Evolving Software Methodologies

APIs Enable a Leaner Startup

Intrapreneur

Hack your Organization

•Rapid Prototyping•Get inspired•Execute on Ideas

Back on Topic…

Going from API -> APP

How to go from Mobile Web to Native?

A multiple phone web based application framework is a software framework that is designed to support the development of phone applications that are written as embedded dynamic websites and may leverage native phone capabilities, like geo data or contact lists.

From Wikipedia

What Identifies a Hybrid Native App?

• Non-native UI Controls• Slow Performance• Lack of Snappiness• Available on All Platforms• Built Quickly

Why I believe Cross Platform will win

• Fast development• Leverage Javascript knowledge on

Mobile• Lots of VC dollars invested in it• Passionate technical founders of

startups• We got inspired by hackathons…

What tools out there enable our

organization to take APIs and make Apps?

How to go from Mobile Web to Hybrid Native?

PhoneGap Architecture Explained

Mobile UI Frameworks

Mobile App Specific IDEs

What about getting my APIs integrated

into my apps?

Innovative Tools like Appery.io

Mobile Backend as a Service – What?

Feature Functionality

Identity SSO, User Mgmt, Auth at API Layer

Persistence Offline Mode, Data Syncing, Caching

Messaging Push Notifications, Email, SMS

Orchestration Server Side Code, API Integration

Mobile Backend Providers

APIs -> Apps

Hackathons!!

Question and Answer

Thank you

@intalex