REST in Peace

Today many websites serve as a backend for mobile and web clients. End users, in their turn, don't care about servers, technologies and other geeky stuff behind applications they use. What they really care about is that the app works seamlessly and responds really quickly. We believe that Drupal is a great tool for building fast and robust backend APIs for such applications.

In Drupal 7, we have several modules that allow to build an API for your site in a few clicks. Services and RestWS are the most popular solutions, but there are, of course, alternative approaches to do the job.

At our session we're going to give an overview of existing solutions, compare them and share our experience in this field. For the best solution available we will cook a client-server demo application that you will be able to taste right after the presentation.
The session will cover:

Brief introduction of REST principles
Comparison and benchmarks of existing Drupal solutions
What is behind the magical phrase “Headless Drupal”
Build-in web services in Drupal 8
Drupal as a REST client
Live demo

Who is the session for:

Backend Developers
Frontend Developers who build client-side applications that use Drupal as a backend
Mobile Developers who are considering Drupal as a backend for their mobile apps

About Kate:

Drupal Consultant in Moscow who fell in love with Drupal in 2011. She cares about development automation, usability and performance. Kate is an experienced public speaker since 2011 when she gave her first talk at DrupalCamp Moscow. She regularly gives sessions at local Drupal camps and meetups with wide range of topics from multilingual system to Linux administration. Besides Drupal, she recently gave a talk “Is Your Android App Hackable?” (http://de.droidcon.com/session/your-app-hackable) for 400+ attendees at Droidcon Berlin 2015.

https://www.drupal.org/u/kalabro

About Konstantin:

Drupal Consultant in Saint Petersburg with eight years of commercial experience, Co-founder of local Drupal Community and Drupal Trainer at MorningCurve.

In 2012 Konstantin co-found local Drupal user group in Saint Petersburg, Russia. Since that time he has given dozens of presentations in different areas such as Drupal, Responsive Web Design, backend performance and many others. From DrupalCamp Saint Petersburg 2014 (http://komelin.com/ru/articles/responsive-web-design-drupal).

https://www.drupal.org/u/konstantin-komelin

At DrupalCon Amsterdam 2014 guys together with two more team members won the first prize by presenting their Drupal 8 distribution to the organizers and experts of Phase2 Hackathon (http://www.phase2technology.com/blog/introducing-drupalcon-amsterdam-hac...).

Track:

Development track

Level:

Intermediate

Speakers:

Konstantin Komelin

Kate Marshalkina

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