American activist Bryant H. McGill once said, “one of the most sincere forms of respect is actually listening to what another has to say.” For API providers, listening to the average user, accepting feedback, ingesting these experiences, and iterating on this information is a powerful exercise. Read more
The Internet of Things (IoT) is upon us. Every object you see around you — whether it’s your fridge, your electric toothbrush, your car, even your clothes, are about to acquire a form of sentience.
Some of them already have. Read more
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APIs are all around us, driving the digital world and largely responsible for some pretty astounding industry disruption. Read more
Continuous Integration (CI) is a part of the DevOps process that aims at integrating code written by a team of developers. This involves building the code along with dependencies, testing it against a prepared set of unit and integration test suites, and creating reports listing the resulting artifacts. Read more
According to The State of API Survey Report 2016 by Smartbear, nearly 85% of the respondents agree that API quality is crucial to their organization. The same survey identifies the top three reasons keeping organizations from delivering quality APIs are:
1) Increased demands for speed 2) Lack of integration between tools and systems 3) Managing expectations of different stakeholders
A remedy for the first reason can be found by fine-tuning architecture and optimizing code. Read more
