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New Beginnings for the API Academy
A reflection on where the API Academy has been, and where it is going.
Matt McLarty on Jan 30, 2019
APIDays Paris: Building Lambdas and Agility in the Land of Sartre
Read B. Cameron Gain's thoughts on the API Days Paris 2018 event, including an analysis of API Academy team member Ronnie Mitra's keynote talk.
Ronnie Mitra on Dec 22, 2018
API and Microservices Virtual Summit: The Digital Enterprise
Learn how your organization can use APIs and microservices to tackle complexity and improve velocity in your software delivery.
Matt McLarty on Sep 25, 2018
Voltaire, Vonnegut, and the Vocabulary of Microservices
The lack of common concepts and axioms is holding the software engineering industry back. This blog post explores the need for a common distributed systems vocabulary to help with that problem.
Matt McLarty on Aug 10, 2018
Standards Daily
HTML5 Web Audio API becomes Candidate Recommendation
First Public Working Drafts of JSON-LD 1.1
Transport Layer Security (TLS) 1.3 Released
"Link Relation Types for Web Services" I-D Update
EXI4JSON Draft Retired
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