This half-day tutorial introduces Protocol Buffers, gRPC, and the open source tools that Google uses to publish and support some of the world's biggest APIs. We'll show how the Protocol Buffer language allows APIs to be described, reviewed, and implemented in a programming-language independent way, how gRPC enables high-performance streaming APIs, and how \ a few simple conventions can enable related tools to serve robust REST APIs and generate production-quality client libraries in seven popular programming languages. This is API publishing the Google way, but large teams aren't required. With shared open-source tooling, even the smallest developer can build scalable, usable APIs that delight.
Tim Burks spent a decade building Electronic Design Automation systems and another building mobile apps. Now he's focused on the thing that holds them all together. In 2016 he joined one of the world's biggest API companies where he works on tools to help developers build and use... Read More →
As of 2018, Andrew leads the Google Cloud Endpoints team, bringing API Management functionality to Google Cloud Platform. Talk with him about APIs, developer portals, OpenAPI, and GCP more generally.
