Rob Allen

OpenAPI is the standard way to describe your HTTP API, adopted by most modern APIs. With the spec at the centre of your workflow, you can improve the quality of your API and development practices, and make integrations painless. With standardisation comes tooling and in this session, I will show you to leverage this to your advantage. In this talk, Rob covers what OpenAPI is, why it’s interesting and then how to use it. He also looks at how the OpenAPI specification enables you to create documentation, use mock servers and improve the robustness of our API with validation. This session is ideal for anyone who wants to write an API specification once and use it everywhere.

Improve your API and OpenAPI - Rob Allen - PHP UK 2022

When you've been tasked with creating an HTTP API, the fundamental decision you need to make is which architcture to choose. Should your API be RESTful? What about GraphQL? or (g)RPC? In this session, I'll explain the choices and how each works. We'll then look at their strengths and weaknesses in order to help guide your decision. By the end of this talk, you'll be well-placed to choose the right API architecture for your project.

GraphQL, REST or RPC? Making the choice! - Rob Allen

How are you supposed to organise your models in an MVC application? What goes where? What is a service class, a mapper or an entity? Domain Driven Design focusses on modelling the domain logic and helps us to map the business requirements to our software. We'll discuss the terminology and take a look at what Domain Driven Design is and see how you use it to provide the model logic for your application decoupling it from your controllers. By the end of this session you will be equipped to create excellent, maintainable models in your application.