A talk about Twonicorn, a magical API translation service written in Go for communicating between two services.

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The magical way of automating cross-API communications.
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I am Mike Mackintosh
Who Am I
Verizon Wireless
Shutterstock
Signal Sciences
Snapchat
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Hacker by Heart
Engineer by Trade
Manager by Title

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Absolutely nothing, and that shouldn’t stop you either
What Qualifies Me to Talk?
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transform in a surprising or magical manner.
What Is Transmorgification?
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Why Transmorgify?
One of the most common needs is to solve for differences
in egress and ingress API schema’s

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How Can We Accomplish This?
Everything has a solution if you’re a little creative.
Forward the Payload
To The Destination
Service
Format and Parse the
Payload
Receive the Source
Format

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One Magical Design
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Request is received by Twonicorn
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Twonicorn matches the incoming configuration path to a
configuration entry
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Twonicorn parses the incoming body, URL Form Encoded post
body or JSON
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Returns the response of the request to the requesting system
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Using a Go template syntax to create outbound request body

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Future of Twonicorn

13. Pub/Sub
Add Pub/Sub-queueing
support for request retry.
Metrics.
Add statsd/prometheus/etc
metric monitoring.
Client-less
Approach.
Removes the need for
custom API clients by using a
headers config field.
KMS support.
Securely store you secrets for
as_user blocks in KMS.
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Questions?

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Special Thanks

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