The Magic Behind Enterprise Apps: How to expose Reliable, Scalable and Secure Enterprise APIs?

Location:

Bayview A/B

Track:

Time:

Monday, 5:20pm - 6:10pm

Abstract:

Enterprise mobile apps consume and mashup data from a variety of backend applications through APIs and a successful mobile app performs it efficiently to provide a seamless and enjoyable experience to the user.

This session covers the often forgotten back-end architecture for mobile apps which should expose cross-platform APIs to mitigate some of the effects of mobile O/S fragmentation. This will entail a detailed discussion of the evolution (or devolution) of the three tier architecture into an optimized, decoupled 2-tier architecture for API exposure that addresses security and data mediation among other capabilities. As a result, this approach enables a traditional Enterprise to leapfrog to mobile applications.

An attendee should expect a discussion of design patterns followed by a conference room booking demo to illustrate the approach.

Topics covered include, the role of Websockets in optimizing performance, mobile friendly security workflows and open source tooling for HTML 5 client app development.

Blake Dournaee

Blake Dournaee is currently the Sr. Product Manager responsible for Intel Expressway line of API Gateway and Data Protection software products. Blake was a specialist in applied cryptography applications at RSA Security and a frequent speaker at API & PCI-DSS conferences throughout the US and Europe. Blake is an established author who wrote the first book on XML Security and co-authored "SOA Demystified" from Intel press.