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How to build and improve your serverless APIs
Modern software revolves around APIs, making it fundamental for developers to have high-quality and robust tools to create meaningful APIs. Serverless computing provides the speed, reliability, control, and development flexibility they need to rapidly scale up their software application - making it an indispensable tool when building complex workflows and stateful APIs.
In fact, the demand for serverless computing is so high that the market is estimated to surpass 21 billion worldwide by 2025. Enterprises leveraging serverless platforms, such as Nimbella, will reap the financial and operational benefits as it promises to reduce operational overhead and costs to manage the infrastructure, quicker deployment to market, and an increase in developer productivity.
In our last conference we wanted to provide an outlet that will help developers in the space learn more about this emerging technology and how they can leverage it on their own. As such, we hosted a conference called “Serverless & APIs,” where we gathered industry experts in the space to educate and discuss with developers how to build and improve serverless APIs.

The speakers invited included some real experts in the serverless industry like:
Rodric talked about “Unleashing the Potential of Stateful Serverless Computing”. Rodric was a Principal Researcher and the technical lead for serverless computing at IBM. He is the creator and the lead contributor to Apache OpenWhisk, an advanced and production-ready serverless computing platform. He was awarded an IBM Outstanding Innovation Award and an IBM Outstanding Accomplishment Award for his leadership and impact on IBM Cloud Functions.
Who went over “Power Tuning Your Serverless API For Happy Customers”. Allen demonstrated a history of working in the computer software industry. Skilled in Javascript, NoSQL, RESTful API services, and AWS cloud development. Strong engineering professional with a Bachelor of Science (B.S.) focused in Software Engineering from The University of Texas at Dallas.
Keith covered “API Security: When Failure Looks Like Success”. Keith currently serves on the Product Team at Okta working on Identity and Authentication APIs. Pro great things. In his spare time, he helps build and support the Austin tech community, and blogs at CaseySoftware.com. He is also a co-author of “A Practical Approach to API Design” from Leanpub.
who discussed “Low Code Serverless GraphQL APIs in A Cloud First World”. William is a software engineer at Neo4j, the open-source graph database, working on database integrations and extensions as part of the Neo4j Labs team. He is also the author of the Manning book "Fullstack GraphQL".
Here are a few key takeaways from the event on unleashing the potential of stateful serverless computing, and how to align and fine tune APIs with serverless technologies:
With all of the benefits serverless computing offers it's no surprise that the market is expected to grow rapidly; and with the Nimbella Postman Plugin, you can take your APIs into a serverless world seamlessly. The plug-in allows developers to extend the functionality of Postman by adding commands to support an API-first development strategy. This approach allows for rapid prototyping, supports a services ecosystem, and enables automated deployment, testing, and continuous delivery pipelines that are extremely important for modern applications. For Installation and User Guide click here.
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