API developers build for functionality: get the right data to the right clients from the right places. This works fine until your API gains wider adoption. Suddenly performance & lack of scalable testing with become a major issue. How can you optimize your API to perform quickly & to scale to a large number of clients? What techniques can we apply from backend & frontend web optimization to make light fast APIs? We'll look at all of this, & more with real world examples that demonstrate the benefits.
Francis Cordon
As Rigors Chief Customer Officer, Francis leads the various technical customer-facing teams such as pre-sales engineering, professional services, technical support & ongoing client management focusing on creating a smooth, positive & valuable customer experience. Francis is absolutely passionate about establishing a results-oriented performance practice & creating an industry-recognized performance maturity scale to help organizations evolve & achieve clearly documented increasing levels of ROI by eliminating outages & improving application performance.
In the past Francis held roles both at Performance Management Software vendors helping Fortune 500 organizations achieve their performance goals, as well as running Performance Architecture & the Application Performance Management practice at The Bank Of New York Mellon end-to-end across the application life cycle from development to production.
In his spare time, Francis enjoys traveling with his wife, practicing traditional Martial Arts, & playing the guitar.
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As always we'll have our geekaways with some awesome geekyprizes some of them have something to do with the force this time around... hint... hint...
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