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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

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.