The document discusses StrongLoop, a company co-founded by Al Tsang that focuses on Node.js and its role in the API economy, highlighting its capabilities in building fast, scalable applications. It presents various integration solutions such as LoopBack, emphasizing features like model-driven architecture and automated REST API generation. Additionally, it addresses challenges in the evolving landscape of APIs, cloud, and IoT, while showcasing StrongLoop's competitive advantages through performance metrics and integration tools.

1. Node: The Integration Fabric of the Future
Al Tsang, Co-Founder & CTO

2. About Al
Over 20 Years of Enterprise and Consumer Software
– producer and practitioner
Product Acceleration through Platforms
Cut by technology’s bleeding edge
– enterprise social networking (km, ml & collaboration)
– structured and un-structured data (xml)
– real time personalization (streams and rules engine)
– WOA at scale (REST based SOA using SCA and MongoDB)
The Rise of the API Economy – StrongLoop and Node.js

3. Thoughts leaders in the API
Economy
Co-founders are main
core contributors to Node.js
25 employees including 50% of the
top 10 contributors to Node.js
Publishers of 100+ Node.js
modules and corporate sponsors
of ExpressJS
Advisors include former CEO’s
from MySQL and WebLogic
Headquartered in Silicon Valley,
CA
Backed by Ignition Partners &
Shasta Ventures
Who is StrongLoop?
About StrongLoop:

4. Node’s Core Strengths
4
Node is FAST
Node is perfect for APIs
Node powers full-stack JS
…and highly concurrent!
Node is built for I/O

5. The Simple Web – *SIGH* Those were the days…
5
Browser
App Server
HTML
Database

6. The Back-end Multiplies
6
Browser
Web Apps
HTML
ERPDatabases ESBDatabase

7. ESBSOA
B2B
7
Browser
Web Apps
HTML
ERPDatabases
B2B
SOAP
Web Services

8. Cloud and Mobile
8
Browser
Web Apps
HTML
ERPDatabases SOA
SaaS
REST REST
Mobile
API Gateway
NoSQL

9. SOA
NoSQL
API Gateway
API Service BusNode
The Rise of the API Economy
SPA Web
Legacy SystemsDatabases
SaaS
REST, CoAP, ???
Mobile IoT

10. Omni-Channel (browsers, mobile, devices, etc…)
– sheer number of clients has increased!
– clients are becoming increasingly sophisticated
– JSON sent to back models on clients to support many views
New Challenges in The API Economy
{
“car” : {
“make” :
“Honda”,
“model” :
“Accord”,
“class” : “coupe”,
“year” : 2014
}
}

11. New Challenges in The API Economy –
Cont’d
The Cloud blurs the line between what was internal vs. external

12. New Challenges in The API Economy –
Cont’d
IoT blurs the line between what was client vs. server

13. Example Code: Back-end Integration

14. Example Code: Back-end Integration cont’d

15. Example Code: Front-end Integration

16. Example Code: Front-end Integration Cont’d

17. Proof in the Pudding
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Transactions/second
Back-end response (ms)
StrongLoop’s Node.js Solution vs. 5 leading competitive integration
solutions
Fortune 25 financial services customer evaluation in October 2014
leading competitorclosest competitor

18. A Quick Shameless Plug…
StrongLoop Integration Solutions

19. LoopBack Open-source Node.js Framework
Built on Top of Express
Optimized for APIs
Model Driven Architecture
Integration Superglue
Full Stack
e2e SDLC Tooling

20. LoopBack Cont’d
 Auto REST API Engine
 Modern ORM (Juggler)
 Aggregation & Mashups
 API Explorer (Swagger)
 Fine Grained Access Control (ACLs)
 Data Replication
 IsoMorphic JS and Mobile Client SDKs
 Arc GUI Interface
 API Gateway
 Prebuilt Mobiles Components and
Services

21. Arc: A Graphical Suite of StrongLoop API Platform

22. Arc: Composer

23. Arc: Build and Deploy

24. Arc: Process Manager

25. Arc: Metrics

26. Arc: Profiler

27. THANK YOU!
For more information…
www.strongloop.com
www.expressjs.com
www.loopback.io
Check out our blog - http://strongloop.com/strongblog
Find us on GitHub – https://github.com/strongloop
…and Twitter @strongloop
Contact Al - @altsang or http://www.linkedin.com/in/altsang