In this special presentation of ProgrammableWeb's Developers Rock Podcast from the Washington, DC-area API Meetup on Nov 5, 2019, calletime.ai co-founder Adam Becker shows attendees how he and his partner collaborated to stand-up an API endpoint in almost no time using three Amazon Web Services (AWS); S3, Lambda, and API Gateway. In the video, he make some important points about taking a DevOps-based approach to provisioning services; namely that all infrastructure should be provisioned with code that's written specifically to do the provisioning as opposed to manually going into the AWS console and fiddling with the various forms and parameters. Becker even shares the code so that anyone else can provision an API endpoint with code in exactly the same way he does it.

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/

In this special edition of ProgrammableWeb's Developers Rock Podcast from DC-Area API Meetup on Oct 1, 2019, Accrue Ltd. founder and CEO Benoit Brookens III talks about the concept of alternative data (data that at first seems unrelated to the trend you're analyzing) and how it can be used to improve predictive analysis. In his presentation, Brookens looks back at typhoons that were rated as 8 or higher and correlates their timing to movement in financial markets.

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https://www.programmableweb.com/news/dc-area-api-meetup-how-alternative-data-api-can-be-used-to-improve-predictive-analysis/analysis/2020/01/14

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/

In this special presentation of ProgrammableWeb's Developers Rock Podcast from the Washington, DC-area API Meetup on Oct 1, 2019, Epigen Senior Information Security Architect Trevor Bryant decides it's time to get smart about the art of securing APIs. And this is where things go sideways. As it turns out, there's no one-stop shop to get smart about API security. No API security bible. So Bryant retraces his steps as he attempts to become an overnight expert on the topic of API Security.

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https://www.programmableweb.com/news/dc-area-api-meetup-government-security-architect-attempts-to-learn-about-api-security/analysis/2020/01/15

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/

In this special presentation of ProgrammableWeb's Developers Rock Podcast from the Washington, DC-area API Meetup on Dec 5, 2019, ProgrammableWeb.com editor-in-chief David Berlind kicks off his long running college series on APIs (a new chapter will be delivered at each monthly DC API meetup). In this first chapter, Berlind reviews the definition of an API, discusses the role APIs play in decoupling API consumers from API providers, offers some real world analogies to help understand the idea of an API's technical contract, and explains what it was that made Web APIs so special as a part of the long history of networkable APIs.

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/what-api-and-why-does-api-contract-matter-so-much/analysis/2020/01/24

APIMetrics CEO and co-founder David O'Neill updates ProgrammableWeb.com editor-in-chief David Berlind on what his company is up to and the launch of it's newest service; API.Metrics

In this edition of the ProgrammableWeb.com Developers Rock Podcast, Curity.io CEO and co-founder Travis Spencer explains why he thinks its a better idea to rely on a dedicated appliance to handle identity management for API access. The approach to API identity management is modeled after the design of routers that do only a few things but do them really really well, and do them at scale.

A complete text transcript of this podcast can be found at https://www.programmableweb.com/news/how-curityios-api-identity-server-designed-scale-availability-and-configurability/sponsored-content/2020/01/24

ProgrammableWeb editor-in-chief David Berlind interviews Telesign director of product management Vince Oh. While you may not have heard of Telesign, you have no doubt encountered its APIs as a customer of some enterprise that uses them to not only authenticate the legitimacy of new registrants, but also to drive improved customer engagement. One reason Telesign is able to do this is because of the information that's available to it as a subsidiary of BICS; one of the world's largest providers of global roaming solutions. In the course of providing those solutions, BICS is able to collect the sort of data (and route it to Telesign) that other SMS API providers (and cPaaSes) cannot easily access.

In its API-driven PrizmDoc Suite, Accusoft offers organizations a collection of document workflow capabilities that can significantly extend the shared document storage and retrieval functions of today's document management solutions. ProgrammableWeb's editor-in-chief David Berlind interviews Accusoft's Vice President of Product Steve Wilson to find out more about what the solution is capable of and why customers have a choice of deploying it to the cloud, or on-premises, behind organizational firewalls.

According to Ben Dowling, founder of IPInfo, an API provider specializing in IP-based geolocation, the key to success is staying customer-driven. Of course, when your organization is an API provider, "customer-driven" is synonymous with "developer-driven." In this interview with ProgrammableWeb editor-in-chief David Berlind, Dowling explains what IPInfo does and how it's diversifying to ensure that developers view the API provider as being the leader in its niche.

Recent research indicates that, across organizations surveyed, old point-to-point integration habits are dying hard. In fact, they could be getting worse, resulting in an increasingly intractable situation as enterprises struggle to digitally transform themselves and avoid fatal disruption.