I had a delightful time in Minneapolis, MN last weekend. However, while I was traveling for fun, there seemed to be a fair amount of social chatter about service meshes. What are service meshes, why would you use them, and where can you find out more? Read on. NOTES SERVICE-MESH:

In the northern Virginia area (NoVA), outside of Washington, DC, the weather has finally turned colder. That's the perfect excuse to stay indoors, cozy up on the couch, and read the latest Net API Notes! NOTES DASITH WIJESIRIWARDENA ON EVENT-DRIVEN MICROSERVICES Dasith Wijesiriwardena, an Australian based full-stack developer,

Hello! I hope everyone had a happy (and safe) Halloween - filled with more treats than tricks! It has been a couple of busy weeks for me (as I briefly mention here and here and here). Hopefully, you have had an equally productive month and are settling in for some

It had been my hope to recap the best bits from last week's API World and API-the-Docs conferences this week. However, Phil Sturgeon swung a tweet at the GraphQL community like a protective parent takes a bat to a beehive. "GraphQL is anti HTTP/2 by definition.

Ugh. Still only early fall and I've already been hit by a bug. I'm wading through the unpleasant out-of-body feeling brought about by decongestant, menthol, and Mountain Dew. However, you can't stop the signal. This week there were API World and the API version

One whirlwind, mid-week trip to New York City, and it is time, again, to post another Net API Notes. NOTES GRAPHQL AT COURSERA GraphQL has been in the public conversation long enough that we're now seeing interesting, multi-year observations of what worked and what didn't. Jon

Next week I'll, most likely, be wading through the artifacts that come out of RESTfest, currently happening in lovely Greenville, SC. Until then, however, I've got an unusually pontificate-heavy edition of the notes. NOTES ARCHITECTURAL COMPLEXITY AS ORGANIZATIONAL DYSFUNCTION "SMELL" In researching and studying

There have been lots of announcements this past week. Let's get to them! IDENTIFYING GRAPHQL'S SWEET SPOT Where GraphQL shines is when the API client and the producer are the same (or close to it). This is Chris Coyier's conclusion in his piece, "

Howdy! I hope you were able to have some time off this past month, as I did. While that was fun, the calendar has now rolled over to September, the pace of intriguing articles is picking up, and we're about to hit the fall conference season. Time for

Summer! Summer! Summer! Some editions of this newsletter are overstuffed, containing numerous interesting pieces that combine into a narrative more significant than the sum of individual parts. Then there were the past couple weeks, where many of the stories evaporated under scrutiny. Still, there are a handful of essential items