the developer toolbox: free apis every developer needs to know about
DESCRIPTION
Nowadays, building a great app doesn't just depend on having a good idea and executing on it. Users have come to expect a certain level of sophistication and integration with the applications they interact with. As if building something new wasn't hard enough, developers are now expected to become experts in handling email deliverability, SMS, performance stability, and social media integration. Thank goodness for APIs! Join SendGrid's Director of Developer Communications and Loader.io's Sr. Developer Sean White as they walk through some of the essential free APIs that every developer should be familiar with when trying to get their app off the ground. This webcast will:: Reveal the most essential free APIs and the best ways to integrate with them Show off creative uses of free APIs Take a deep dive into free SendGrid and Loader.io APIsTRANSCRIPT
Free APIs You Should Check Out
Adam DuVanderDeveloper Communications Director
@adamd
Housekeeping
• ReadyTalk Conference Tools Console
–View in Full Screen Mode
• Questions for Adam and Sean
–Ask questions by using the CHAT function
–When the presentation begins, you will see the chat box as a floating window to use at any time
–We will answer as many questions as possible and those that we don’t get to in a follow up blog post
• Follow Up
–You will get an email with a link to the recording and a copy of all slides
Company Overview
• Founded July 2009
• TechStars graduate(Boulder, CO)
• 110 employees across 4 offices
– HQ: Boulder, CO– R&D: Anaheim, CA /
Romania
$27M venture capital raisedSeries B closed Jan 2012
Angel investors include:-Scott Petry (Founder, Postini)-Matt Mullenweg (Founder, Wordpress)
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Delivering Email at Scale
• Serving 60,000+ customers
• Sending over 6 billion emailsper month
• Transactional and marketing email solutions
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Today’s Speakers
Ryan HarrisLead Abuse Hombre [email protected]
Amy MustoeManager of Client [email protected]
Obviously…
Also Obvious
API Themes
• Intelligent Calculations• Visual• Email• Location • Music
• Login• Developer Tools• Memes• Secret Google APIs
Intelligent Calculations
Intelligent Calculations
Intelligent Calculations
Intelligent Calculations
Visual
Visual
• Web API• SMTP API• Marketing Email API• Event Webhook• Inbound Parse Webhook
Email in Any Language
Hacking SMTP
“category”: [ “trial_users”, “daily_digest”]
“unique_args”: { “user_id”: “12345”, “order_num”: “67890”}
“sub”: {“%name%”:
[“Rick”, “Roll”]}
Email Marketing
Robust API for all features
Event Notifications Webhook
Event Webhook Magic
MagicMail.io
To: [email protected]: TOP SECRET
Your mission should you choose to accept it…
To: [email protected]: TOP SECRET
open event
Inbound Parse Webhook
Including attachments
Inbound Use Cases
Location
Location
Location
Location: Geocoders
2839 ne alberta st portland or
45.559040, -122.636318
2839 NE Alberta StPortland, OR
45.559040, -122.636318
Location
Music
Music
Music
Login
LoginOAuth.io
Developer Tools
Brought to you by:
@sendgridlabs
➔ Part of SendGrid’s R&D group◆ Work on R&D for SendGrid core◆ Projects outside of core
➔ Developer focused◆ Try to identify and fix pain points ◆ Committed to providing dev tools
What we do
➔ Simple cloud based load testing➔ Released in public beta March 1st
➔ Free and Pro versions available➔ Usage
◆ > 9k users◆ > 12k apps tested◆ > 72k tests executed◆ > 25 TB data transferred◆ Some customers: Microsoft (teched), SendGrid,
Dell, livestrong, Chilis, Salesforce, Intuit, stopwatching.us, cesweb.org, eclipse.org
Key features
➔ On-demand & continuous load testing➔ High volumes of test connections
◆ up to 100k clients per test
➔ URL sequences➔ HTTP Methods➔ REST API➔ Cycling, non-cycling & scenario testing➔ Expressions allow dynamic modifications
◆ http://example.com/resource/id/%{1:1000:1}
➔ Stats and history
API
➔ Location◆ api.loader.io◆ docs.loader.io/api/intro.html
➔ Functionality◆ Register and verify testing domains◆ Create and execute tests◆ View test results◆ Obtain list of client IP’s
Coming soon
➔ More protocols◆ SMTP◆ WebSockets
➔ Enhanced analytics and reporting➔ Regional traffic sources➔ Team Accounts➔ More integrations
Integrations
➔ Platforms◆ Heroku◆ Azure◆ CloudBees◆ AppHarbor◆ Cloud Control
➔ Applications◆ Jenkins◆ HipChat◆ FlowDock◆ GroveIO
Demo
Memes
Memes
Stevan Sheets
Secret Google: Profanity
bit.ly/gprofanity
Secret Google: Stocks
bit.ly/gstocksym
WeatherStocksMoviesNews
Secret Google: Suggest
bit.ly/gsug
ProgrammableWeb
API Themes
• Intelligent Calculations• Visual• Email• Location • Music
• Login• Developer Tools• Memes• Secret Google APIs
19+ APIs
Learn More
• Event API Webinar• API Guide• blog.sendgrid.com• SendGrid Delivered:
– Miami, San Diego, LA, and South America
• SendGrid and Loader Free Accounts!
QUESTIONS?