My name is DeVaris Brown and I'm the Evangelist for Zendesk. Part of my duties is to be the keeper of all things API, so I wanted to talk about some of the things we've done from an architectural standpoint in making our API performant and consistent using Ruby. We have over 500,000,000 customer interactions a year, so our API takes quite a beating. From the use of presenters, to doing side loading to prevent N+1, plus a few more tips and tricks, we've done some great work in making our API robust. I think this talk would really benefit developers by learning from our successes and failures along our journey.
The reason why you should pick me to speak at your conference is that I'm the guy that can keep people up and engaged after lunch. I also took a blood oath to NEVER EVER sound like a substitute Economics teacher while speaking Bueller, Bueller. I used to be an evangelist for Microsoft teaching college students about ASP.NET and Silverlight. If I can keep them interested for longer than 5 minutes, this should be easy breezy!
Seriously though, I'm a passionate guy with off color humor that hates sales pitches and loves to find out what excites people. We've got some great tech going here at Zendesk and I want the world to know. I hope to hear from you soon and if you have any questions please don't hesitate to comment.
DeVaris Brown dbrown@zendesk.com