This is a continuation of session SaaS, Drupal services and Oauth (video) presented at Drupalcon Portland. This time focused on practical examples for back-end and front-end developers.

"Software as a Service" (SaaS), is a very powerful feature of Services module for Drupal 7, and a key component of the revolutionary Drupal 8 core.

Why to attend this session

• You are looking for advice on starting a profitable business around SaaS
• You want to discover a "gold mine" ready to be harvested somewhere in your existing products
• You want ideas prior to put your hands dirty on building "the next big thing" supported by SaaS

Learning Objectives

• Learn several key concepts of SaaS: "endpoint", "consumers", "REST" and "2-legged OAuth"
• Learn tips to design lightweight and intuitive Web services and why you should care about that
• Learn how to use JSON to turn your Drupal site into a data storage (and perhaps a big one)
• Learn how to "feed" and/or "consume" your new "little SaaS monster" using Guzzle PHP library (included in Drupal 8 core).
• Introduce the audience to SaaS concepts
• Showcase the new technology that Drupal 8 provides to build powerful SaaS products
• Feature an example SaaS project to wake-up curiosity for start playing with Drupal 8's new powers.

Speakers experience on the field

@develCuy has professional experience integrating web services with Drupal 5.x to 7.x for SaaS projects, as well as being the owner of a high-traffic site that takes advantage of SaaS technologies.