Matthew Reinbold

It has been a couple of weeks, and the videos from the API Specifications Conference (ASC 2020) have been posted. I'll probably highlight some notable presentations next week. This week, however, it is time for another mailbag! MAILBAG, PART DEUX: CONWAY'S LAW AND MICROSERVICES Questions trickle

For those outside of the US, I hope you had a pleasant weekend. For those inside the US, I hope you were able to get a few moments of peace between the pandemic, economic depression, wildfires, freak hurricane-force gales, social unrest, class inequity, back-to-school unease, and debilitating incompetence at on

Hey, you. Yeah YOU. Can you believe it is September already? I think I'm as confused as this guy: Now, onto the notes! NOTES SMARTBEAR'S 2020 STATE OF API REPORT SmartBear, OpenAPI sponsor and creator of SoapUI, released its latest annual report on global API trends.

Typically, I take a break from the notes during August; most readers are MIA with their summer vacations, new articles slows to a trickle, and conference revelations dry up. However, in this pandemic-induced, collective Ground-Hogs day time has lost meaning. Besides, people might welcome whatever distraction they can get. So,

Hello! Is it August already? Really? Oh-boy. I don't know who needs to hear it, but this piece on negative habits in the age of Covid-19, by Eric Barker spoke to me: "-we are starting to acclimate, accepting it all as just another episode of the COVID-19

Greetings, and welcome to the 151st day of March! Sometimes putting together this newsletter is pretty straightforward: * Somebody shared a thing * Thing is good * I link to the thing Other times, however, there needs to be a bit more assemblage on my part. So break out the wheat paste, put

Hello! How are you? I've been on vacation for the past couple of weeks due to the July 4th holiday and completing a couple of big presentations. I wouldn't exactly say that I'm rested, but I'm ready to get back to things.

A co-worker just shared this on our company Slack yesterday: "An API service that my husband's company depends on just sent them an email earlier today that said 'we are updating our API endpoints today at 3 pm. Please change all your calls to this new

Happy Juneteenth! I hope all of you reading this are safe and healthy. If there is a sliver of a silver lining to sheltering in place, it is having more time to sample the amazing collection of #BlackLivesMatter media collected by the major streaming services. Michael B. Jordan and Brie

You're busy, I'm busy, and we're all distracted. To the notes! NOTES THE FRENCH 'STOP COVID' APP AND LACKLUSTER API DESIGN The French government published the source code for its Stop Covid contact tracing app. Efforts like these will be crucial to