TRIFORK

Presentation: "REST: A Pragmatic Introduction to the Web's Architecture"

Time: Tuesday 11:00 - 12:00

Location: Auditorium 1, 1. floor

Abstract: REST, short for REpresentational State Transfer, is a name for the architectural principles underlying the world's largest and most successful distributed system - the World Wide Web. In this talk, Stefan will describe the key REST principles, the reason for their existence, and the differences between RESTful HTTP applications and SOAP/WSDL-based Web services. Stefan will also show how to design RESTful applications and demonstrate some typical patterns and anti- patterns discovered in the wild.
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Stefan Tilkov, innoQ

Stefan Tilkov

Stefan Tilkov is co-founder and principal consultant at innoQ, a technology consulting company with offices in Germany and Switzerland. He has been involved in the design of large-scale, distributed systems for more than a decade, using a variety of technologies and tools ranging from C++ and CORBA over J2EE/Java EE and Web Services to REST and Ruby on Rails. Stefan is lead SOA editor of InfoQ, author of a numerous articles and a frequent speaker at conferences around the world.