Hello and welcome to the first Net API Notes of the new year! I hope you had an opportunity to rest and rediscover what energizes you during that time. I originally planned to make a much bigger deal out of the 150th issue. However, recent events at the nation'

Season's greetings and welcome to this, the final Net API Notes newsletter for 2020. Saying that this has been a unique year is an understatement. And while there is indeed light on the horizon, there's still some time to go until we get there. For you

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