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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

(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