Ancestry.com to present at API Strategy & Practice Conference
Designing easy-to-use APIs is not always an easy thing to do. In fact, some developers feel guilty taking time from coding for design – especially spending design time on such things as method names,...
View ArticleThe Platform Initiative at Ancestry.com
Ancestry.com has been operating a massive data service and website for over 17 years. As you might imagine, the needs of the business 17 years ago were much different from what they are now. Currently...
View ArticleExposing APIs to Your Clients
So, you want to share your super awesome system with the world. You have it all figured out. You implemented it as a web service, and you have exposed the necessary APIs as HTTP endpoints. Your hope is...
View ArticleAncestry.com Gets Hands-On With API Design at RootsTech Innovators Summit
When it comes to API interface design, do your software engineers have a design touch or feel? Many engineers do not. Without training and proper aesthetic feel, your APIs might end up quite awkward or...
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APIs Are Like Parenting
I’ve presented at several conferences recently and one of the analogies that resonated with the audience was that of comparing API Design to parenting. So, here’s the analogy: APIs Are Like...
View ArticleFeatured Article: Want Great APIs? Start With Training
Ancestry.com, has awesome software engineers, products, and APIs. However, programmers are not always trained as API designers and when it comes to API development, consistency matters. As companies...
View ArticleControlling Costs in a Cloudy Environment
From an engineering and development standpoint, one of the most important aspects of cloud infrastructure is the concept of unlimited resources. The idea of being able to get a new server to experiment...
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Big Data for Developers at Ancestry
Big Data has been all the craze. Business, marketing and project managers like it because they can plot out trends to make decisions. To us developers, Big Data is just a bunch of logs. In this blog...
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External APIs: To Explode, or Not to Explode, That is the Question
William Shakespeare – hs-augsburg.deShakespeare might not approve of my taking liberties with his play Hamlet, though prince Hamlet was essentially saying the same thing as I was feeling last year:To...
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