This week Alan Ho (https://twitter.com/karlunho) from Apigee (https://apigee.com) joins

your cohosts Francesc (https://twitter.com/francesc) and Mark (https://twitter.com/neurotic) to talk about the

lifecycle of an API.

About Alan Ho

Alan (https://twitter.com/karlunho) is an engineer and entrepreneur, and leads developer advocacy for

Apigee (https://apigee.com) - an API Management provider newly

acquired by Google Cloud. In addition to helping out customers build better APIs, he organizes API conferences and

technical talks on all things APIs. Prior to Apigee, he had started a mobile application performance monitoring company

(acquired by Apigee), and had built large scale web services at Amazon.

Cool thing of the week

* Kompose: a tool to go from Docker-compose to Kubernetes blog (http://blog.kubernetes.io/2016/11/kompose-tool-go-from-docker-compose-to-kubernetes.html)

Interview

* Crafting Interfaces that Developers Love ebook (https://pages.apigee.com/web-api-design-website-h-ebook-registration.html?int_source=resources-main&int_medium=website&int_campaign=ebook&int_content=api-design)

* Open API Initiative site (https://www.openapis.org/)

* Swagger API Framwork site (http://swagger.io/)

* Uber’s APIs: Giving Developers the Keys to Innovation blog (https://apigee.com/about/blog/developer/ubers-apis-giving-developers-keys-innovation)

Question of the week

When using Ruby (https://www.ruby-lang.org), developing with Cloud Services, such as storage, how can I write my code such that it’s

portable between Cloud Providers?

* Fog site (http://fog.io/)

* Google Cloud Provider for Fog github (https://github.com/fog/fog-google/)

* Create a VM with Fog & Ruby: Cloud Minute YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09-OlnQ6fGs)

* Upload to Google Cloud Storage with Fog: Cloud Minute YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhWE6GTphXM)

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