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

While I continue to prep for some serious conference hashtag camping mid-month, some great articles continue to pop up on my radar. Without further ado, here are the notable Net API Notes for this week in May. NOTES API INTERACTION TYPES IN A MICROSERVICE ARCHITECTURE Matt McLarty is on a

May is here and, for me, it is a short week as I attend to some personal business. There are things worth mentioning, however, before the avalanche of May conference presentations. So, without further ado, here are this week's notes! NOTES USE-CASE VS DATA DRIVEN GRAPHQL APIS Those

The Washington, DC metro area has been enjoying some fantastic spring weather. However, tiptoeing through the Tulips hasn't stopped me from scouring the web for the latest, greatest Net API notes to share. This week, we're going beyond the typical HTTP and focusing on a handful

Whew! I got a little busy and several weeks flew by in the wink of an eye. During the day job, my team and I have been exploring alternatives to domain driven design (DDD) for helping teams identify API boundaries. While DDD is great, it can be a heavy process.

Spring has sprung! So, too, has the latest crop of great, API-related content. Onto the notes! NOTES THOUSANDS OF API KEYS LEAKED DAILY ON GITHUB Hey, did you know that James Higginbotham also had an email newsletter? In the latest edition, he had a great piece from Danny Bradbury entitled

It has been a busy week. Every six months my team gets together in one location to do a deep dive on the big issues: things like "What are upcoming technologies we should consider?", "How can we more effectively train teams?", and, the greatest, "How

Surprising to no one that reads this newsletter, we live in a world influenced by algorithms. Access to those algorithms, however, is changing. Knowledgeable professionals, in an open source world, could inspect the programmatic work and assess impact. But, as the Stephen O'Grady note from last week mentioned,

It has been a strange fall and winter season in the DC metro area: nothing but rain, rain, and more rain. But I can't let the seasonally odd weather dampen my mood. There's API notes to get to! NOTES OPTIMIZING FOR THE SPEED OF LIGHT Darrel