Technology Commentary

While making my way around the API landscape for the last thirteen years I have seen that many of the words we use describe APIs are the same, but the meaning of these words will vary depending on who you are and the role you play in the great API hustle. I began this API journey like most, focused on the technology of APIs. I quickly learned that while technology plays an important role, the most important dimension of this great API hustle is more about the business of APIs. I find the business of APIs to be interesting but full of some of the most unimaginative people who can’t (or won’t) see the bigger, more meaningful picture. While I started writing about what I consider to be the politics of APIs back in 2014, I’d say it is the last remaining aspect of this API hustle that interests me in 2023—-making it the top narrative here on API Evangelist moving forward.

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Using Regex to query Postgres database with use cases

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Learn how to improve your OpenAPI spec by avoiding common pitfalls.

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Here’s a a line I liked from episode 461 of Todd Conklin’s PreAccident Investigation Podcast. At around the 8:25 mark, Conklin says: ….accidents, in fact, aren’t preventable…

Back in August, The New York Times ran a profile of Morris Chang, the founder of TSMC. It’s hard to overstate the role that this Taiwan-based semiconductor company plays in the industry. If y…

Can the sleeping fox ever wake up?

With modern API gateways, enhancing security often doesn't require extensive overhauls, just a simple configuration change.

Cloud Development Environment vendor Gitpod says it offers a "self-hosted" CDE too, but unlike Coder.com, it isn't "self-managed".

Handling Duplication And Errors when using Multiple Redis Data Structures as Queues

I once heard that Javascript has so many warts because the first version was made in just ten days. I was curious 1) if this is true, and 2) if it explains...

User interfaces are usually quite subjective, so there is always room for debate over how good or bad something is. I'm always happy to argue the merits and potential reasons a change makes sense overall even if it doesn't work for me personally. However, there is one line of reasoning

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“Technology is like a bomb in Myanmar.” —Kyaw Kyaw, frontman of Burmese punk band Rebel Riot 1 Back in early July, I started working on a quick

In the field of big data analytics, stream processing has emerged as a crucial paradigm, reshaping how businesses interact with data. But what is stream processing and why are more businesses using it?

Exploring the Connection Between Team's Maturity and Required Specialization

Shadow deployment enables observation of changes and their impact without causing any disruption to a live application.

Senser launched an AIOps platform that leverages eBPF in Linux operating systems to collect data from IT environments.

SPONSORED FEATURE: There are a lot of pressures on the datacenter network these days just to deal with expanding data and the increasing use of microservices architectures for modern applications. But the advent of artificial intelligence – both for neural model training and for inference that drives applications – has really thrown a monkey wrench