The API Experience Podcast

In this episode, Mike and Matt explore two of Mike’s most recent pieces of writing, which both explore how to design for unknown and emergent systems. The first article covers the concept of innovation, and its relationship to emergent systems. The second brief article calls out a new perspective in design: catering to machine clients rather than humans.

Description: In this episode, Mike and Matt make the case for why following the best practices of API strategy and implementation is the best path to readiness for implementing AI Agents. Along the way, they talk about where agentic technology can best be applied first, what some of the big blockers will be, and how well-defined, well-designed APIs can provide the foundation.

In this episode, Kin Lane joins Mike and Matt to share his experience as a builder and leader in the global API community, to recount some of the biggest lessons he has learned along the way, and to discuss what he sees in the future for APIs.

Christian Posta, Field CTO at solo.io, dives into the fascinating intersection of APIs and AI agents. He discusses the Model Context Protocol (MCP) and its enterprise readiness, revealing both excitement and caution in the industry. The conversation covers the evolution of APIs amidst Kubernetes and the complexities of transforming innovative concepts into real-world solutions. Christian also highlights the security risks in API design and the pressing need for collaboration among developers to maximize MCP's effectiveness.

In this episode, Mike and Matt are joined by Alli Deacon of GraceBlood LLC. Alli shares her unique path into the application integration business, her experience incorporating APIs into a world of EDI and ERP's, as well as some of the unique business challenges she has faced and solved in sorting out increasingly complex supply chains for her customers.

In this episode, Mike talks to Matt and Stephen Fishman about their new book, Unbundling the Enterprise. They dig into what the authors learned about the business side of APIs from interviewing experts from more than 20 organizations. Unbundling the Enterprise - https://itrevolution.com/product/unbundling-the-enterprise/ Design Rules by Carliss Baldwin & Kim Clark - https://direct.mit.edu/books/monograph/1856/Design-Rules-Volume-1The-Power-of-Modularity The Yegge Rant - https://courses.cs.washington.edu/courses/cse452/23wi/papers/yegge-platform-rant.html

In this inaugural episode for Season 2 of the API Experience podcast, Mike and Matt discuss the API-related topics they feel will have the most significance in 2025. They cover the business value of APIs, the intersection of AI and APIs, new API standards, and many more topics.

In this episode, Mike and Matt look back on and share clips from all the great API Experience Season 1 episodes.

In this episode, Matt and Mike talk with Markus and Marilena Mueller of APIIDA about the new challenges organizations face in managing APIs, and the new techniques needed to meet those challenges.

In this episode, Matt and Mike talk with Sanjay Nagaraj, co-founder and CTO at Traceable.ai. Sanjay shares his experience in the API security domain, his background in AI, and insights on how those worlds come together. Read more from Sanjay in InfoWorld: https://www.infoworld.com/article/3709450/the-state-of-api-security-in-2023.html