the developer toolbox: free apis every developer needs to know about

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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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Free APIs You Should Check Out

Adam DuVanderDeveloper Communications Director

@adamd

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

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 raisedSeries B closed Jan 2012

Angel investors include:-Scott Petry (Founder, Postini)-Matt Mullenweg (Founder, Wordpress)

3

Delivering Email at Scale

• Serving 60,000+ customers

• Sending over 6 billion emailsper month

• Transactional and marketing email solutions

4

Today’s Speakers

Ryan HarrisLead Abuse Hombre Xryan.harris@sendgrid.com

Amy MustoeManager of Client Servicesamy.mustoe@sendgrid.com

Obviously…

Also Obvious

API Themes

• Intelligent Calculations• Visual• Email• Location • Music

• Login• Developer Tools• Memes• Secret Google APIs

Intelligent Calculations

Intelligent Calculations

Intelligent Calculations

Intelligent Calculations

Visual

Visual

Email

Email

Email

• Web API• SMTP API• Marketing Email API• Event Webhook• Inbound Parse Webhook

Email in Any Language

Hacking SMTP

“category”: [ “trial_users”, “daily_digest”]

“unique_args”: { “user_id”: “12345”, “order_num”: “67890”}

“sub”: {“%name%”:

[“Rick”, “Roll”]}

Email Marketing

Robust API for all features

Event Notifications Webhook

Event Webhook Magic

MagicMail.io

To: agent99@getsmart.comSubject: TOP SECRET

Your mission should you choose to accept it…

To: agent99@getsmart.comSubject: TOP SECRET

open event

Inbound Parse Webhook

Including attachments

Inbound Use Cases

Location

Location

Location

Location: Geocoders

2839 ne alberta st portland or

45.559040, -122.636318

2839 NE Alberta StPortland, OR

45.559040, -122.636318

Location

Music

Music

Music

Login

LoginOAuth.io

Developer Tools

Brought to you by:

@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

➔ 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

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

API

➔ Location◆ api.loader.io◆ docs.loader.io/api/intro.html

➔ Functionality◆ Register and verify testing domains◆ Create and execute tests◆ View test results◆ Obtain list of client IP’s

Coming soon

➔ More protocols◆ SMTP◆ WebSockets

➔ Enhanced analytics and reporting➔ Regional traffic sources➔ Team Accounts➔ More integrations

Integrations

➔ Platforms◆ Heroku◆ Azure◆ CloudBees◆ AppHarbor◆ Cloud Control

➔ Applications◆ Jenkins◆ HipChat◆ FlowDock◆ GroveIO

Demo

Memes

Memes

Stevan Sheets

Secret Google: Profanity

bit.ly/gprofanity

Secret Google: Stocks

bit.ly/gstocksym

WeatherStocksMoviesNews

Secret Google: Suggest

bit.ly/gsug

ProgrammableWeb

API Themes

• Intelligent Calculations• Visual• Email• Location • Music

• Login• Developer Tools• Memes• Secret Google APIs

19+ APIs

Learn More

• Event API Webinar• API Guide• blog.sendgrid.com• SendGrid Delivered:

– Miami, San Diego, LA, and South America

• SendGrid and Loader Free Accounts!

QUESTIONS?

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