Talks

I'm speaking tonight at the gRPC Meetup in Sunnyvale. Thanks to Larry and the gRPC team for hosting me!

gRPC isn’t just for internal services! More and more API consumers are getting up to speed using gRPC APIs, and with transcoding and AIP-127, gRPC can be used to build great HTTP/JSON APIs. But most API management products focus on HTTP/JSON APIs and address gRPC as an afterthought (if at all), and gRPC service meshes generally don’t address needs of external consumers like API key issuing and verification.

How can we help API platform teams ensure that their organizations make and use secure, reliable, and easy-to-use APIs?

In September, I introduced Google summer intern Nicole Gizzo as she presented our summer work on analyzing API vocabularies. Our presentation was titled The Vocabulary of APIs: Adaptive Linting for API Style Detection and Enforcement.

In October I presented this workshop at the 2019 API Specifications Conference. It describes Google's work on GAPIC generators and gnostic-grpc and rejoiner, tools for implementing REST and GraphQL APIs on gRPC services. Details and slides are below.

Presented at the San Francisco Server-Side Swift Meetup, March 27, 2019, this talk describes how Protocol Buffers, gRPC, and OpenAPI can be used with Swift to make it easier to make and user networked APIs. Details and slides below.

Presented at APIStrat 2018, this tutorial introduces Protocol Buffers, gRPC, and the open source tools that Google uses to publish and support some of the world's biggest APIs. Details and slides are below.

In February 2018, I had the honor and good fortune of copresenting at IBM's Index Conference with Mike Kistler, the architect for SDK generation for the Watson Client Libraries. Video and slides are below.

In November I presented this talk at the APIStrat, the API Strategy and Practice Conference. Details and slides are below. Later I posted an edited transcript on Medium.

This short talk introduces gnostic, a tool that I wrote that reads OpenAPI descriptions, encodes them in an efficient binary representation using Protocol Buffers and optionally calls plugins that perform linting and code generation.

Here are slides from a talk that I presented at an iOS developer meetup in San Francisco. Additional background is also below.

Here's a short talk that I presented at the Silicon Valley App Engine Meetup a few months after I worked with a Joachim Bengtsson and Dave Dribin to launch Open Radar. Slides are below.

Many thanks to Jonathan Rentzsch for posting this video of my talk!