Presentation: "RESTful SOA in the Real World"

Time: Wednesday 16:50 - 17:50

Location: City Room

Abstract:
SOA and REST concepts and their associated benefits are well understood for some time now.  However, people in the industry as well as academia seem to have contentious arguments about what restful SOA services mean, how they are described, implemented and consumed.  This talk presents a simple and pragmatic approach taken in a real-world high volume eCommerce platform use case on how to enable access to SOA services as REST style resources, and summarizes the learnings.

The presentation starts off with a quick recap of the SOA and REST concepts, followed by some prevalent approaches in the industry. The talk then describes an approach we took in eBay SOA platform to describe and enable RESTful access to SOA services in an optimal and highly performant fashion and concludes with our learnings and takeaways.

Sastry Malladi, Distinguished Architect, eBay

Sastry Malladi

Sastry is a technology evangelist with over 20 years of experience in architecting and building scalable distributed computing systems, in the areas of Application Servers, Java/J2EE/Web Services, SOA and Grid Computing. He is currently a Distinguished Architect at eBay, driving the SOA architecture and platform for the eBay ecommerce platform.

Prior to joining eBay, Sastry was co-founder and CTO of OpenGridSolutions, Founding member and Architect at SpikeSource, and an architect at Oracle. Sastry also worked at many other companies in the early stages of his career and holds a Masters degree from I.I.T, Kharagpur, India. Sastry has presented at many conferences including JavaOne, Oracle World, SOA world and IONA world to name a few.. Sastry contributed to and represented in many standards at OMG, JCP, GGF and OASIS.