Another week, another business trip. I'm currently in Richmond, VA dodging snow flurries in between discussing 2018 strategy. I count myself lucky working with the team I do; there's a pursuit of honest truths (and holding ourselves accountable to find them) that is precious. I'

There were two major events in the past week that filled my browser tabs. The first was the 2017 AWS re:Invent conference that took place in Las Vegas, Nevada. The second was publication of the ThoughtWorks Technology radar. Each had noteworthy, API-related items to discuss. AWS RE:INVENT, KUBERNETES,

I hope those of you that were in the US had a RESTful (and relaxing) Thanksgiving holiday. We are rapidly entering one of my favorite seasons: when things slow down and I step back to review the patterns of the previous year. Before I get there, though, there's

Hello everyone! While this has been a productive week for my day job, the writing I do on the side has suffered. I could try and pound out a hamfisted grab-bag of whatever happens to be bookmarked before my return flight from San Francisco. But a number of recent pieces

Write a newsletter long enough, and you'll be pitched to check out a product. Usually, this is a pretty harmless affair - done ethically, I get to check out what somebody has been cooking up, maybe even get a good story from events, and the product gets a

Today is Halloween. While your minions may be busy preparing for all sorts of ghoulish tricks for later this evening, I come bearing treats of a different sort. GETTING STARTED WITH RESTFUL API DESIGN Several months(!) ago, REST API Notes reader Eduar responded with a very simple question: "I

MICROSERVICE REALITIES The first piece that I'd like to highlight this week is Roger Jin's "How to Align Your Team Around Microservices". As he says in the ProgrammableWeb article: "the poor naming of microservices is one of the reasons behind misconceptions and misapplication

NORDIC API PRESOS Last week was the 2017 Nordic APIs platform summit. Bill Doerrfeld has, unsurprisingly, the best recap of the event. There's a wealth of jumping off points in the article; find a rabbit hole appropriate to you and enjoy the dive. One item, in particular, was

I've talked, at length, about the challenges of microservice development in previous REST API Notes. If there has been an API trend in 2017, it has been techniques to deal with increasing service complexity. Two of the biggest have been reactive microservices and service meshes. REACTIVE MICROSERVICES Jonas

NEW FRONTIER SAME AS THE OLD FRONTIER Last week I was at the API World conference. In his kickoff to the microservices workshop, Matt McLarty shared the presentation "New Frontiers for Microservices". A PDF of the deck is available on the conference website. What I appreciated about Matt&