Ross Mason, Founder and CTO of MuleSoft, Creator of the Mule Integration Platform

Ross Mason is Founder and CTO of MuleSoft, Inc., and the creator of the Mule integration platform. Frustrated by integration ""donkey work,"" he set out to create a new platform that emphasised ease of development and re-use of components. He started the Mule project to bring a modern approach, one of assembly, rather than repetitive coding, to developers worldwide.

Prior Mason was CEO of SymphonySoft Limited, an EU-based company providing services for large-scale integration projects. He has been working on distributed and prickly integration problems for over 15 years and has a passion for making integration easier, driven by the fact that our integration needs never diminish. Loves Italian food, hates spaghetti code.

Presentation: "Going real-time: How to build a streaming API"

Track: Realtime Web

Time: Wednesday 14:40 - 15:30

Location: Bayview

Abstract:

The leading APIs such as Facebook, Twitter and Salesforce all offer a real-time APIs that overcome the limitations of the traditional RPC model of communication. These APIs provide data updates in real-time without the polling. Anyone building an API should learn from these trail-blazers and this session will introduce the concept of Streaming APIs, how you know if you need one and the explain how to build a streaming API.