Gamers Do REST

Explore how Demonware leverages Python and Django to construct RESTful APIs serving millions of gamers worldwide for Activision-Blizzard's popular franchises Call of Duty and Skylanders in this 24-minute EuroPython 2014 conference talk. Delve into the tech stack, API design principles, configuration management, middleware utilization for logging, metrics, and error handling, as well as authentication and authorization strategies. Gain insights into implementation details and solutions to challenges encountered while building scalable backend services. Learn about processing tools, schema migration, JSON schema, error handling techniques, and the use of JSON Web Tokens, Signatures, and Description Objects. Conclude with a summary and Q&A session led by Jason Webb.

Intro
Angel Ramboi
What do we do
Backend services
API count
Doc overview
Why REST
Design
Processing Tools
Services
Code
Schema Migration
JSON Schema
Error Handling
Matrix
Logging vs Matrix
JSON Web Tokens
JSON Web Signature
JSON Web Description Objects
Summary
QA
Jason Webb