Adam DuVander's talk from Future Insights Live 2014 in Las Vegas: "Building web and mobile applications is easier now than ever before. Adopt the architecture of building on APIs and cloud services and 80% of your project will be completed before you start." Miss his talk? Join us at a future show: www.futureofwebapps.com. Sign up for our newsletter at futureinsights.com and get 15% off your next conference.

1. Pareto-as-a-Service
The Rise of
Adam DuVander @adamd Orchestrate.io

3. Have I got a
principle for
you!

4. Pareto Principle
80% of the effects
come from 20% of the
causes
Vilfredo Pareto
1848-1923

5. Architecture has changed
Focus on Core Strengths
How to Evaluate APIs
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2
3

6. 80% of the wealth
comes from 20% of the people

7. 80% of the support tickets
come from 20% of the customers
80% of the revenue
comes from 20% of the customers
80% of the bugs
come from 20% of the code

8. 1848 19231906

9. ARCHITECTURE HAS CHANGED

10. Your Typical Developer

11. WifiPDX

12. Mashup Mayhem

13. APIs That Extend Products

14. Beer-as-a-Service?
Flickr user skipjack2000

16. Cloud Infrastructure
Storage Computing

17. Communications
Email SMS Push

18. Intelligent Calculations

19. Data

20. Databases
Key/Value Search Graph Events

21. Probable “API Products”
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23. Pareto-as-a-Service
APIs &
Cloud Services
What Makes
Your App Special

24. FOCUS ON CORE STRENGTHS

25. Precision Polling
Guarav Oberoi
Chuck Groom

26. Massive VOIP Network

27. Simple Front-End

28. Acquired.

29. Precision Polling
Guarav Oberoi
Chuck Groom

31. Simple Front-End

32. Acquired.

33. No VOIP Network

34. Frameworks and Libraries

35. Technical Debt

36. Can We Build It?
Em Tom Hughes-Croucher

37. You Can’t Build Everything

38. Persona

39. “Core Strengths?”
What you can doWhat users want

40. HOW TO EVALUATE APIS

41. Company Viability
SimpleGeo IQ Engines

42. Company Viability

43. Product Viability

44. Product Viability

45. How Do You Pay?
Pay as You Go
Pay for what you use
Grows as you grow
Seems fair
Tiered
Traditional SaaS model
Predictable
Allows volume discounts
Tiered with Trial
Get started for free
Upgrade when you grow
Devs like freemium
Most
popular!

46. Uptime & Latency

47. Uptime & Latency

48. Ease of Self Service

49. Ease of Full Service

50. Six Things to Look For
• Company Viability
• Product Viability
• How Do You Pay?
• Uptime and Latency
• Ease of Self Service
• Ease of Full Service (Support)

51. Architecture has changed
Focus on Core Strengths
How to Evaluate APIs
1
2
3

52. Pareto-as-a-Service
APIs &
Cloud Services
What Makes
Your App Special

53. Adam DuVander @adamd Orchestrate.io