REST is Dead! Long live the Web!

Users are in revolt! They are on strike! “Freedom!” is their repeated demand. They plague your twitter feeds with complaints. They picket your headquarters building. The signs read “No More Refresh Buttons!” If you have not attended this presentation yet, that is your certain future! Join us for this enlightening discussion of Reactive Application Architectures for modern enterprise applications and secure the good name of your enterprise today!

Users are demanding applications which keep them informed of new events as soon as they happen. They are no longer willing to accept “Just hit the refresh button” or “It will update in a few minutes by itself” when demanding satisfaction of this new basic requirement. They are collaborating in real time, co-editing, co-authoring, ‘co-laborating’ with colleagues across the country and around the world, chatting over the phone or VOIP while working together via your app. They want their updates to travel from their laptop to their co-workers screens as fast as their voice reaches them through the phone. This is a tough requirement to meet, especially when trying to put a modern face on a legacy app or integrating a shiny, new, reactive app with a legacy, REST-based datasource.

And it is not just your end-users that are clamoring for reactive data sources. No, the requirements for server-to-server communication of changes to data or state have forever changed. REST no longer is King in the world of web services. REST just doesn’t cut the mustard any longer. Users of your data services are also demanding more flexible, reactive options when consuming your endpoints.

Join us for this thought provoking journey of discovery as we explore the real strategies that you can apply today as you architect your new or existing stack to satisfy the ever-increasing demand for ‘real-time’ applications and data services, fed by reactive data sources, regardless of your current technology choices.