Matthew Reinbold

Lordy, lordy. Yesterday folks woke to news that a behemoth largely regulated to history emerged from the deep, big blue ocean and consumed a megashark. Or IBM acquired Red Hat. The consolidation in the enterprise software space continues. More on that in a minute. What also continues is another set

Hello and welcome to this latest edition of REST API Notes! After back-to-back conference weeks (APIStrat and API City) I took a week to focus on work-work. Sure enough, during that time the community continued to publish all sorts of notable things (not to mention some major financial exchanges happening)

Hello, and welcome to this special REST API Notes recap of the 2018 API Strategy and Practice (or #APIStrat) Conference! I last attended in 2016. That event ended on a strange, perhaps even bitter, note. The people behind the event had a series of challenges throughout the year; from family

This has been a busy week! I've got Plenty of updates on tap in this email to clear out before APIStrat and APICity in subsequent weeks. But if you want to get things kicked off with some bounded-context humor, be sure to start with XKCD's comic

Hello, hello, hullo! I hope you were able to take some time off in August! As for myself, some book project work had to take a backseat while I moved the family into our new house. And now, in the blink of an eye, we're knee-deep in API

Hello August! It's that time of year for family vacations, personal passion projects, and time away from work. At least that's what the number of auto-responses from last week tells me. Likewise, as I mentioned earlier this year, these notes will also be taking a hiatus

Another week, another business trip. It not only has been a rainy July in Virginia, but there's been a steady drip-drip of API notes to check out. Let's dig in. NOTES API LOAD TESTING The first "Day Camp for Developers" virtual conference recently concluded.

This week is light on links but heavy on thought. Let's get into it. THE WEEK'S HIGHLIGHTS GOODBYE MICROSERVICES This past week, Alexandra Noonan published a blog post entitled, "Goodbye Microservices". It goes into a great amount of detail on the architecture of their

Howdy, howdy! I hope folks in the states had a happy and safe Fourth of July. And, for those everywhere else, I hope it was an unusually enjoyable Wednesday. Let's get to selected works for this week. NOTES HOW SINGAPORE WILL RUN THE COUNTRY USING APIS Stories about

I hope everyone transitioned easily into their summer routines. For me, that meant enjoying the excellent Nordic APIs Austin Summit before diving headfirst into a variety of new projects (while trying to watch a World Cup game or two). How 'bout that conference? NORDIC APIS RECAP Bill Doerrfeld, who