Matthew Reinbold

At the end of last year, Pakal De Bonchamp published an article, "REST is the new SOAP". I see a fair amount of these hamfisted takedowns with click-baity titles when scouring the web. The approach I've adopted is, largely, to ignore them. While there might be

Last week, the API Days 2018 Conference was held in Paris. While I couldn't attend in person, I dutifully collected the best info coming from that event to share. Here, in no particular order, are the highlights from the conference. ERIK WILDE, SURFING THE WEB CONCEPTS I'

Last week, I took a stab at guessing what 2018 might have in store. I cited what appears to be a growing counter-narrative against microservices. I also mentioned we'd take this week to use Steward Brand's Pace Layer Thinking as a scalpel for separating tech fashion

Back at it! I hope everyone was able to take some time at the end of 2017 to rest, relax, and recharge. While on break, I got to tinker with some Raspberry Pi projects, watch some Long Now videos, and build some Lego. I also reviewed the web API year

Good grief. Where did 2017 go? This will be the last REST API Notes for this year. Hopefully we'll all have a well deserved couple weeks off and I'll publish a recap and future outlook piece early next January. Two astute newsletter readers, Tim and David,

Another week, another business trip. I'm currently in Richmond, VA dodging snow flurries in between discussing 2018 strategy. I count myself lucky working with the team I do; there's a pursuit of honest truths (and holding ourselves accountable to find them) that is precious. I'

There were two major events in the past week that filled my browser tabs. The first was the 2017 AWS re:Invent conference that took place in Las Vegas, Nevada. The second was publication of the ThoughtWorks Technology radar. Each had noteworthy, API-related items to discuss. AWS RE:INVENT, KUBERNETES,

I hope those of you that were in the US had a RESTful (and relaxing) Thanksgiving holiday. We are rapidly entering one of my favorite seasons: when things slow down and I step back to review the patterns of the previous year. Before I get there, though, there's

Hello everyone! While this has been a productive week for my day job, the writing I do on the side has suffered. I could try and pound out a hamfisted grab-bag of whatever happens to be bookmarked before my return flight from San Francisco. But a number of recent pieces

Write a newsletter long enough, and you'll be pitched to check out a product. Usually, this is a pretty harmless affair - done ethically, I get to check out what somebody has been cooking up, maybe even get a good story from events, and the product gets a