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Alex Payne

Alex Payne
CTO, BankSimple

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Alex Payne is an engineer at Twitter, a social network of individuals sharing short status updates via the web, SMS, IM, and an extremely popular API. Since taking on the support and development of Twitter’s API, the service has grown to hundreds of millions of requests per day. Alex’s background is in web application development and information security, and his code has powered mission-critical operations, political campaigns, and non-profit initiatives. Alex lives and works in San Francisco.

Sessions

2:40pm Wednesday, 04/23/2008
Design Your API: Learnings from Twitter and Stamen
Development
 Location: 2003
Alex Payne (BankSimple), Michal Migurski (Stamen Design)
Web 2.0 owes much of its success to APIs: protocols to create, distribute, update, and modify the valuable data that comprises the Web. Alex Payne and Michal Migurski will discuss the design of web service APIs from the dual perspectives of client and provider, outlining best practices and cautioning against worst cases. Read more.