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 APIs
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The Developer Toolbox: Free APIs Every Developer Needs to Know About
1. Free APIs You Should Check Out
Adam DuVander
Developer Communications Director
@adamd
2. 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
3. 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 raised
Series B closed Jan 2012
Angel investors include:
-Scott Petry (Founder, Postini)
-Matt Mullenweg (Founder, Wordpress)
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4. Delivering Email at Scale
• Serving 60,000+ customers
• Sending over 6 billion
emails
per month
• Transactional and marketing
email solutions
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5. Today’s Speakers
Ryan Harris
Lead Abuse Hombre X
ryan.harris@sendgrid.com
Amy Mustoe
Manager of Client Services
amy.mustoe@sendgrid.com
22. Event Webhook Magic
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36. @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
37. ➔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
38. 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
51. Learn More
• Event API Webinar
• API Guide
• blog.sendgrid.com
• SendGrid Delivered:
– Miami, San Diego, LA, and South America
• SendGrid and Loader Free Accounts!