This past Monday, November 30th, the US Supreme Court heard arguments on the nation's major cybercrime law. The verdict has ramifications not only for screen scrapers but net API usage, as well. The US Congress passed the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) in 1986. It prohibits intentionally

Goodness, look at the time! Can't sleep. I must be overdue for another edition of Net API Notes! NOTES AMAZON'S WERNER VOGELS ON DISTRIBUTED SYSTEM EVOLUTION Published on ACM, Tom Killalea recently sat down with Amazon's CTO, Werner Vogels. The conversation was wide-ranging. When

This week, I've got some thought provoking stories. No intro required. To the notes! NOTES HOW NETFLIX SCALES ITS API WITH GRAPHQL FEDERATION Netflix's "experience layers" is one of the seminal chapters in net API history. Anything published on the Netflix engineering blog is

This hasn't been a normal year. This isn't a normal election. Therefore, this isn't a normal newsletter. That crispness in the air isn't just the seasonably appropriate weather. Anxiety has been in abundance for some time now. However, as the U.S.

A fall vacation, an extracurricular MIT course, and a last-minute all-hands presentation have kept me busy the last several weeks. Despite my preoccupation, however, the API news kept coming. Let's get right to it. NOTES HACKING APPLE AND MCDONALDS Since they are a programmatic interface to a company&

Welcome to October! How are you doing? Are you coping? Are you finding a way through? The weather in the greater DC metro area has been fantastic for answering calls while walking. Pounding the pavement has helped keep me grounded and the bigger picture in perspective. Speaking of perspective, it

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,