Today, new application development leans towards microservices and serverless approaches. With this paradigm shift, the weaknesses of traditional RESTful API approaches began to show. GraphQL was developed in response to the problems of a typical REST API, but requires a fair amount of configuration to get it running server-side. Read more
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In any sizable organization, it’s hard to feel like you can make a difference with just your tech skills. There’s no surprise that software engineer Flavia Sequeira felt exactly that when she joined ING — the multinational banking firm with over 50,000 employees — in 2013. Read more
In development, the term full stack – familiarity with multiple programming languages for both frontend and backend development – is thrown around pretty regularly. Full spectrum is one that’s used from time to time, and may be a better way to describe the techniques required for superior API practice. Read more
Summary of API Strategy & Practice conference held in Portland from Oct 31 – Nov 2.
Last week I was fortunate enough to attend, speak, and meet new API enthusiasts at APIStrat in Portland, Oregon. API Strategy & Practice is a series of quality API-themed conferences held throughout the United States, originally organized by API Evangelist and now adopted as a Linux Foundation event. Read more
