Databases like PostgreSQL, Oracle & MS SQL are the foundation of today's enterprise systems. They support mission critical business processes & transactions. They are the stores of record. But many feel that data just sleeps in databases. It remains siloed & hidden from people & tasks outside of the original application scope such as web & mobile applications, data science or even changes business workflows.

In today's talk we will explore the idea of Resource Oriented Architecture ("ROA") & learn how to employ REST APIs to provide unobstructed access to your data assets. We will contrast this with ETL/Data Warehousing & Service Oriented Architecture. We will also show a practical example of building a REST API to a PostgreSQL database using SlashDB, a leading implementation of ROA, which is freely available for developers today.

Speaker: Victor Olex is a founder & CEO of SlashDB, an automated REST API gateway to databases. He is a pioneer of Resource Oriented Architecture, a new approach to data integration, in which database content becomes discoverable & easily accessible in full context & under standard data formats. Mr. Olex has over 20 years of experience as a technology architect & software engineering consultant in the financial industry including organizations such as Bank of America Merrill Lynch, J.P. Morgan, Commerzbank as well as number of hedge funds. Native of Poland, & an immigrant to the U.S., where he lives with his wife. He believes that above all motivation is the key to success.