The API Experience Podcast

In this episode, Mike and Matt jump headlong into the concept of composability, for both software architectures and digital business. They trace the roots of composability way back to the early days of computing, and show the common thread that runs through the more recent movements around Service Oriented Architecture, Domain Driven Design, API First, and Microservices. There are many resources mentioned in this episode: Matt's Infoworld article on SOA and Microservices - https://www.infoworld.com/article/3080611/learning-from-soa-5-lessons-for-the-microservices-era.html Gartner on Composable Business - https://www.gartner.com/smarterwithgartner/gartner-keynote-the-future-of-business-is-composable David Parnas' paper introducing information hiding - https://www.win.tue.nl/~wstomv/edu/2ip30/references/criteria_for_modularization.pdf Mel Conway's paper introducing Conway's Law - https://www.melconway.com/Home/pdf/committees.pdf Djikstra on separation of concerns - https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD04xx/EWD447.html Alan Kay on message passing - https://wiki.c2.com/?AlanKayOnMessaging Rechtin on Systems Architecting - https://sdincose.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/TheArtOfSystemsEngineering_inaugural.pdf Dr. Carliss Baldwin's Design Rules - https://www.biblio.com/book/design-rules-vol-1-power-modularity/d/1573116839 Roy Fielding defining REST - https://ics.uci.edu/~fielding/pubs/dissertation/rest_arch_style.htm#sec_5_3_2 James Lewis & Martin Fowler defining Microservices - https://martinfowler.com/articles/microservices.html Jonathan Murray on Composable Enterprise - https://adamalthus.com/blog/2013/04/04/the-composable-enterprise/

In this episode, Matt and Mike talk with Audrey Kolski, API Product Management Consultant for The API Collective, about how to treat APIs as products. Audrey shares her experience working on high scale API products, and her opinions on the best way to productize APIs and get value from them.

Data is at the center of the AI revolution, and has always been the foundation of web APIs. In this episode, Swagata Ashwani--Principal Data Scientist at Boomi--joins Mike and Matt to share her expertise and experience on data science, showing the most important areas where APIs and data intersect.

Learn about the journey of creating the Cat API, managing the API lifecycle, and building a thriving API community. Discover the educational impact of APIs and the evolution of content moderation. Explore the importance of premium plans for API longevity and the future trends in the API space.

In this episode, Matt and Mike share festive wishes for the global API community, and Mike recounts what he experienced and learned at the API Days Paris event earlier in December. He covers the diversity of topics, the growing diversity of the API community itself, and articulates some of his main observations around API protocols, API product maturity, and the unavoidable elephant in the room: AI. Happy holidays to all our listeners!

Much of the guidance we give and receive in the tech industry–and especially in the API community–assumes constant, limitless access to the World Wide Web, or at least to high speed, high scale corporate networks. But what if web access is heavily constrained, or if there is no access at all? In this episode of the API Experience, Matt and Mike welcome Nelly Cheboi and Tyler Cinnamon, founders of Techlit Africa, to share their story of bringing digital information and education to children who might not otherwise have access to the web or even to computers, and the amazing outcomes that access has created. NOTE: Nelly was awarded CNN Hero of the Year in 2022.

In this episode, Mike and Matt dive into the hottest topic in tech: Artificial Intelligence. Using the recent OpenAI Developer Keynote as a springboard, they dive into the role of APIs in the AI ecosystem, especially GenAI. They cover the emergence of AI-driven Agents and API-powered Actions, note some significant historical references, and there's even a mention of everyone's favourite AI pioneer, Clippy.

In this episode, Matt and Mike sit down with their friend Erik Wilde to talk about the past and future of API Management. Erik shares insights from his recent talk and article, "Quo Vadis, API Management?" The discussion covers the relationship between web best practices and APIs, the importance of having a business perspective on APIs, and the idea of cultivating an API landscape.

In this episode, Matt and Mike are joined by Claire Barrett, Director at APIsFirst, Co-Founder of the API Collective, and Leader of the Women in APIs community. Claire shares her expertise on API strategy, details the areas where people can make the biggest difference, and illustrates these insights through her own experiences working with organizations around the globe. The episode touches on organizational practices, API-specific roles, and new business models such as embedded banking.

Irakli Nadareishvili, Managing Director at JP Morgan Chase, discusses building API platforms at scale, understanding legacy systems' impact on adaptability, principles of building platforms, the importance of platform engineering in modern products, and the role of Kubernetes expertise and generative AI on programming.