I usually do the in-person meetups and conferences at the end of the newsletter. However, due to the number of pandemic-related cancellations, shelter-in-place orders, and future uncertainty, I thought I'd address it at the top. Gluecon postponed their event to October. Nordic APIs announced they were postponing their

If open rates are anything to go by, people are preoccupied at the moment. I don't blame them. However, if you're interested in a bit of distraction while studying the nuances of distributed systems, I've got another collection of notes for you! NOTES '

Putting together the newsletter this week was a challenge. It's not so much that it has been a slow week; there have been slow weeks before. Answering questions, pontificating on the industry, or cribbing from Phil Sturgeon's twitter feed has never been an issue. What is

After a couple of busy weeks, the bin of potential inclusions is overflowing! Let's begin addressing the backlog with this collection of notes! NOTES DANIEL BRYANT AND THE ULTIMATE SERVICE MESH GUIDE If you've heard of service meshes but remain unclear about what they are or

Happy Valentines Day! What started out as a newsletter light on linked romance turned into a love letter to API security. C'est la vie. To the notes! NOTES SHOULD I USE MICROSERVICES? In my look-ahead 2018 newsletter, I described how we were fast approaching "peak microservices"

This week I had the pleasure of presenting the DC Web API meetup group. Increasingly, talks that I give contains multitudes; pairing down all the possible tangents to a single, straightforward path is a challenge. "Why AI Success is Built on APIs" was no different. I hope to

At my 'day job', I've been busy with year-end/year-beginning performance reporting. I thought that I'd take it easy by doing a mailbag roundup. However, that turned out to be more involved than trolling the internet! As they say where I'm from,

A quick snowstorm in the Northern Virginia area Tuesday (with the knock-on effects Wednesday) threw my publishing schedule off. Before we get any closer to the weekend, let's get to the notes! NOTES GRAPHABLE JSON TO SUPPORT API DESIGN CHANGES Breaking clients because of an API design change

Looking back, 2019 was notable for several reasons: * I wrote more than 25,000 words on APIs in this newsletter, as well as a fair bit more over on my public website. * Net API Notes finally got a landing page! * While the landing page is very rudimentary, I've

Hopefully, for those of you that celebrated Thanksgiving last week, you had a good one. People's customs during that time vary. I try to spend a smidgen of time considering what I am thankful for. This year, it occurred to me how grateful I am for this creative