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

(Photo from 59Productions) On July 20th, I was able to attend the Smithsonian presentation, #GoForTheMoon. It was held on the National Mall and celebrated the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing. There were numerous exhibits at the National Air and Space Museum, booths, and activities. However, the centerpiece

Hello! I came back from vacation, had a quick tête-à-tête with the team in the east coast office, and now I'm in California for meetings and the APIDays SF conference. I need to pull together my impressions from the event for possible inclusion in a future email. Until

Last week I had the opportunity to speak to the Technical Product Management Community of DC. It was part of my desire to deepen local ties and grow richer area communities. It was different in that the presentation wasn't directly about APIs, software governance, or knowledge communities. Instead,

Busy week in a busy month. <Insert folksy personal antecedent here if there is time> Onto the notes! ;) NOTES MOVING THE SERVICE-MESH COMMUNITY FORWARD A service mesh is how containerized application infrastructure (often supporting cloud-based microservices) talks to its various pieces reliably. As numerous individual items are being

It has been a strange couple of weeks. On the one hand, there's been a fair amount of content that I've been reviewing on an ongoing basis. On the other, much of it is derivative. When I first created this newsletter, it was with the understanding

Tons of items to cover this week. No time for pastoral pontificating. Onto the Notes! NOTES RECAPPING AUSTIN API SUMMIT AND WWW CONFERENCES PUTTING THE AI IN API I've long been intrigued by Algorithmia's marketplace. The attempt to take the variety of common machine learning functionality

This week I was pleasantly engaged in hashtag camping both the Nordic Austin API Summit and the Web Conference (formerly WWW) out of San Francisco. I'll have cherry-picked the most interesting bits from both of those events for next week's newsletter. This week, however, we need