Sendbird has announced the addition of voice and video calling APIs to augment its existing chat and messaging API offering. The technology relies on the World Wide Web Consortium's WebRTC standard and offers customers an opportunity to consolidate their in-app communications down to one vendor. In this edition of ProgrammableWeb's Developers Rock Podcast, PW editor in chief David Berlind catches up with Sendbird CEO and co-founder John Kim to find out more about the company and the announcement.

To get a full-text transcript of this presentation, go to:

https://www.programmableweb.com/news/john-kim-ceo-and-co-founder-sendbird/analysis/2020/04/03

According to MuleSoft's 2020 Benchmark Connectivity Report, virtually all enterprises see digital transformation as being critical to their success. But, unfortunately, a majority of IT leaders still picture themselves as keeping the lights on versus innovating. In the edition of ProgrammableWeb's Developers Rock Podcast, ProgrammableWeb editor-in-chief David Berlind interviews MuleSoft Director of Solutions Engineering Ani Pandit to find out more about the findings of the report and what it means for businesses.

To get a copy of MuleSoft's 2020 Benchmark Connectivity Report, go to: https://api.pw/benchmark

To get a full-text transcript of this presentation, go to:

https://www.programmableweb.com/news/69-percent-it-leaders-are-keeping-lights-instead-innovating-enter-apis/interview/2020/03/19

In this edition of ProgrammableWeb's Developers Rock Podcast, David Berlind, editor in chief of ProgrammableWeb interviews Andrew Lawrence, director of product management at Commerce Cloud at Salesforce to find out more about the new Commerce Cloud developer portal, which, for the first time, allows anonymous developers to come and experiment with 20 different APIs.

To see the video version of this interview or to get a full-text transcript of this presentation, go to:

https://www.programmableweb.com/news/salesforce-commerce-cloud-exposes-apis-to-public-new-try-you-buy-developer-portal/interview/2020/03/18

While private sector companies such as Amazon, Facebook, Google, etc. draw closer to perfected digital states, the public sector (government agencies and organizations) are woefully behind in their pursuit of digital transformation. In bringing together developers, civic techies, and government officials, Code for America is hoping to change that by inspiring developers and other citizens into fulfilling their civic duty. In this podcast, ProgrammableWeb editor-in-chief David Berlind interviews Code for America founder Jen Pahlka to learn more about the Code for America Summit.

(Editor's Note: While the Code for America Summit in Wash, DC has been canceled due to the coronavirus pandemic, the organization is currently exploring its virtual event options)

To get a full-text transcript of this presentation, go to:

https://www.programmableweb.com/news/post-corona-code-america-looks-to-join-devs-civic-techies-and-gov-officials-to-transform-govops/interview/2020/03/06

In this edition of ProgrammableWeb's Developers Rock Podcast, ProgrammableWeb editor-in-chief David Berlind chats with Contentful VP Benjamin Keyser about the idea of an API-first "headless" content management system and what his company is doing to accelerate the developer path to "Hello API."

To get a full-text transcript of this presentation, go to:

https://www.programmableweb.com/news/contentful-benjamin-keyser/interview/2020/03/12

In this special presentation of ProgrammableWeb's Developers Rock Podcast from the Washington, DC-area API Meetup on Feb 4, 2020, ProgrammableWeb.com editor-in-chief David Berlind delivers part 2 of his long-running college course on APIs (a new chapter will be delivered at each monthly DC API meetup). In this second chapter (following up to chapter 1), Berlind reviews the importance of API contracts and what it means for Web APIs to decouple API clients from API servers. And then he gives some real-world examples of how that decoupled nature of Web APIs affords some amazing flexibility to the organizations that pursue the idea of API-led application networks.

ProgrammableWeb.com editor-in-chief David Berlind is the co-organizer of the DC-Area API Meetup. We're always looking for more attendees, speakers, and sponsors (the sponsors buy the pizza). For more information about the meetup, go to:

https://www.meetup.com/DC-Web-API-User-Group/

To get a full-text transcript of this presentation go to:

https://www.programmableweb.com/news/how-decoupled-nature-web-apis-gives-you-incredible-flexibility/analysis/2020/02/28

To see more videos from the DC API Meetup Playlist go to:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLcgRuP1JhcBP6xnZKkzLMHfMRBMl62OqU

To see a list of articles on ProgrammableWeb that include the DC API Meetup Videos along with their full transcripts go to:

https://www.programmableweb.com/category/dc-area-api-meetup

In this special presentation of ProgrammableWeb's Developers Rock Podcast from the Washington, DC-area API Meetup on Feb 4, 2020, Capital One's director of API and Event Streaming Platform Services Matthew Reinbold discusses how APIs will democratize access to low-cost Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning.

Even with today's open source technologies for applying artificial intelligence and machine learning, there are still some thorny challenges to getting both right. Especially at a reasonable cost to both the pocketbook and the planet. But API-led approaches might be able to ease the pain.

We're always looking for more attendees, speakers, and sponsors (the sponsors buy the pizza). For more information about the meetup, go to:

https://www.meetup.com/DC-Web-API-User-Group/

To get a full-text transcript of this presentation, go to:

http://api.pw/Reinbold

To see more videos from the DC API Meetup Playlist go to:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLcgRuP1JhcBP6xnZKkzLMHfMRBMl62OqU

To see a list of articles on ProgrammableWeb that include the DC API Meetup Videos along with their full transcripts go to:

https://www.programmableweb.com/category/dc-area-api-meetup

In this episode of ProgrammableWeb's Developers Rock podcast, ProgrammableWeb's David Berlind and Bob Reselman talk GraphQL with Geoff Schmidt, co-founder of Apollo GraphQL; the leading solution provider for standing-up GraphQL-based APIs. Support for platforms beyond Apollo GraphQL's native support for node.js and federation of "the graphs" were some of the many topics covered in this interview.

A full-text transcript of this video can be found on ProgrammableWeb at:

https://www.programmableweb.com/news/apollo-graphql-co-founder-geoff-schmidt-discusses-federation-graph-video/interview/2020/02/25

Twilio has released its annual State of Customer Engagement Report and to find out more about the report and the trends that it spotlights (including challenges with robocalls and the role of AI in improving the customer experience), ProgrammableWeb's editor-in-chief David Berlind captured a video interview with Al Cook, the company's Vice President and General Manager of Artificial Intelligence.

A complete text transcript of this podcast can be found at:

https://www.programmableweb.com/news/interview-al-cook-vp-and-general-manager-artificial-intelligence-twilio/interview/2020/02/20

In this special presentation of ProgrammableWeb's Developers Rock Podcast from the Washington, DC-area API Meetup on Dec 5, 2019, Oddball.io CTO Rob Wilkinson breaks down the two most important phases of launching successful APIs for the federal government.

1. The key components such as the API's value proposition, tracking its growth, offering self service developer accounts and knowing the path to production.

2. How to get it done which involves the governance, the technology, and the marketing (generate awareness)

ProgrammableWeb.com editor-in-chief David Berlind is the co-organizer of the DC-Area API Meetup. We're always looking for more attendees, speakers, and sponsors (the sponsors buy the pizza). For more information about the meetup, go to:

https://www.meetup.com/DC-Web-API-User-Group/