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-# Skyring
 
-![skyring](./assets/skyring.png')
-A distributed reliable timer service providing similar functionality to using `setTimeout`. 
+![skyring](./assets/skyring.png)
+
+# Skyring
+A distributed reliable timer service providing similar functionality to using `setTimeout`.
 `Skyring` servers are clustered  into a *hashring* using consistent hashing to partition timers to specific nodes in the ring.  Skyring exposes a simple HTTP API That allows to you create and cancel timers. Timer execution comes in to the form of an HTTP webhook ( more transports to come )
+
+# Timer API
+
+A request can be issued to any active node in the cluster. If that node is not responsible for the timer in question,
+it will forward the request directly to the node that is keeping network latency to a minimum. This makes `Skyring` very
+suitable for high performance, stateless, and distributed enviroments.
+The minimum cluster size is 3 nodes, 2 of which being seed or bootstrapping nodes. A cluster of this size can average
+between 2K - 5K requests per second.
+
+## Create a timer
+
+##### **POST `/timer`**
+
+**Request**
+
+```bash
+curl -i -XPOST http://localhost:8080/timer -d '{
+  "timout": 6000,
+  "data" : "{\"foo\":\"bar\"}",
+  "callback": {
+    "transport": "http",
+    "method": "post",
+    "uri": "http://api.someservice.com/hook/timout"
+  }
+}'
+```
+
+**Response Headers**
+
+For performance considerations, a body is not included in responses. Rather, HTTP headers are used to relay information about timer status.
+In the case of a `Create` request, the uri to the timer instance is returned in the `Location` header.
+
+```
+HTTP/1.1 200 OK
+location: /timer/4adb026b-6ef3-44a8-af16-4d6be0343ecf
+Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2016 00:19:13 GMT
+Connection: keep-alive
+Content-Length: 0
+```
+
+## Cancel A Timer
+
+**Request**
+
+```bash
+curl -i -XDELETE http://localhost:8080/timer/4adb026b-6ef3-44a8-af16-4d6be0343ecf
+```
+**Response Headers**
+
+```
+HTTP/1.1 202 Accepted
+Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2016 00:22:12 GMT
+Connection: keep-alive
+Content-Length: 0
+```