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2019 speaker

Steven Wade

Steven Wade

Software Engineer, Follow Up Boss

Follow Up Boss

Mauldin, SC

Steven is a Software Engineer at Follow Up Boss and has been writing PHP since 2007 - though that was not his first language (ActionScript 2.0 - 2006). Steven has a passion for community and from 2014-2019 founded and ran the user group UpstatePHP in Greenville, SC. In addition to organizing UpstatePHP, he has organized local hackathons, was a PHP mentor with SC Codes, and Co-Hosts the Code Talk with Matt & Steven podcast. In his free time, he enjoys spending time with his best friend/wife and their two wonderful children.

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2019 · intermediate

8 Simple Rules for Consuming APIs

Everyone wants to show you how to build an API, but all too often, the bread and butter is in consuming and integrating with someone else's API. I've seen many integrations with APIs, some bad, some worse. That's where these "rules" come in. Maintain your sanity and add reliability with these rules.