‘Apithon’ - Apigee’s Hackathon aims at Skill Building for Indian Developer
Community
Around 60 developers across South India came
together to share and learn new paradigms for today’s programmable world
Apigee, one of the
leading API platform providers in the world conducted ‘Apithon’ – an exclusive
hackathon for select ‘app’ developers from across the country. The 36 hour
hackathon (December 13th to 15th) was aimed at promoting a new way of application
development by engaging developers across South India to learn the new programming
paradigm.
The three day event
witnessed active participation from some of the leading developer communities including
BangaloreJS (Bangalore Javascript Community), Blrdroid (Bangalore Android Developer
Group) and many more who came together to create effective and innovative
applications and processes for the evolving digital landscape in India. The
participants designed and shared ideas based on themes 3 Tier App and Mashup
APIs. 3-Tier-App in mobile development is an alternate way to create the mobile
stack.
Pic: Participants creating an app that changes the colour of the bulb according
to the music being played.
It is mainly focused on offloading data processing to a cloud infrastructure rather than the mobile itself. This saves the battery and computing power of the mobile. Mashup APIs leverage Apigee’s API platform to mashup different APIs in the cloud infrastructure itself instead making multiple API calls from the mobile itself. Mobile app developers often have a need to expose their own APIs. Apigee’s platform provides a way to do that with minimal effort and zee cost. Both these themes are a proposal to architect the mobile stack in a different and efficient way, which is beneficial for both developers and app end users.
Pic: Participants creating an app that changes the colour of the bulb according
to the music being played.
It is mainly focused on offloading data processing to a cloud infrastructure rather than the mobile itself. This saves the battery and computing power of the mobile. Mashup APIs leverage Apigee’s API platform to mashup different APIs in the cloud infrastructure itself instead making multiple API calls from the mobile itself. Mobile app developers often have a need to expose their own APIs. Apigee’s platform provides a way to do that with minimal effort and zee cost. Both these themes are a proposal to architect the mobile stack in a different and efficient way, which is beneficial for both developers and app end users.
Speaking at the
event, Srinivasulu Grandhi, VP and
Managing Director, Apigee (India) said, “We
are in the middle of a digital transformation and all businesses, large or
small, need to develop a digital presence in order to survive. They need to
create sustainable competitive advantage and win market leadership under the
new rules of the programmable world. With Apithon, our aim is to create
awareness for the developer community to learn new ways of programming and not
just learn but hack to glory by building cool new, contextually rich
experiences.”
Pic: Mr. Srinivasulu Grandhi interacting with the bloggers
Nagaraju Kummari, a senior developer employed by Accenture, who participated in the event, said, “App development is much more beyond building a “client app”. It is about providing rich, contextually relevant experiences to your users across a wide variety of devices that they use on a daily basis. It’s great that Apigee is providing us with this intellectually stimulating environment for us to learn, share and unleash our creativity. This has been a wonderful experience.”
As computing and
connectivity dramatically increased over the years, the critical mass of
computing power has moved further away from the center to the edge - from glass
rooms, to office desks to coat pockets. This cumulative effect has brought us
to the tipping point of a programmable world. Within the next few years, fifty
billion connected, sensing devices and a trillion instrumented objects will
wrap people, organizations and things with digital representations as
fundamental to their identities as their physical selves.
By connecting to Application
Programming Interfaces (APIs), the devices can deliver on the larger context of
their users needs. For example: Cars can present traffic information; TVs and
DVDs can stream movies; washers can run when electricity is cheapest. All of
these have changed user expectations and are creating a programmable world that
we are just beginning to fully experience.
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