Shelby Switzer
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Shelby Switzer is a software engineer focusing on API design, development, and evangelism at Notion. She's a doer at CodeForDenver, Celtic linguist, and falafel enthusiast. |
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| Title | API-in-a-Box |
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| Level | Stack Day |
| Abstract |
Civic hacking isn’t like most other hacking: you work with developers with all different skillsets and dev environments, deal with data that’s often fragmented and denormalized, and have to build systems that require little or no maintenance — and definitely no funding. These challenges, while exciting, can pose serious obstacles to actually getting shit done. Overcoming them requires guerrilla tactics, and bypassing traditional methods of infrastructure and development to store, manage, and interact with these troublesome data sets. Enter Docker and Elasticsearch, and a simple three-layer hypermedia API-in-a-box solution that any developer can immediately turn on with `docker-compose up`. |