Radio MuleSoft

This episode features highlighted clips from every episode in Season 3.

In this episode, friend of the show Stephen Fishman drops by to talk with Mike and Matt about the influence Tim O'Reilly had on Jeff Bezos issuing the famous "API Mandate" at Amazon. They discuss an O'Reilly blog post from 2002, including what insights it provides for API consumer and providers today.

Resources:

Tim O’Reilly blog on Amazon APIs - https://web.archive.org/web/20020802192606/http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/1707

O’Reilly quoted in Amazon 2002 press release - https://press.aboutamazon.com/2002/7/amazon-com-launches-web-services-developers-can-now-incorporate-amazon-com-content-and-features-into-their-own-web-sites-extends-welcome-mat-for-developers

O’Reilly Emerging Technologies Conference 2002 Agenda - https://web.archive.org/web/20020802060010/http://www.aaronsw.com/2002/etcon/notes

O’Reilly JavaOne keynote (Page 1 of 6) - https://web.archive.org/web/20020618063515/http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/network/2000/06/09/java_keynote.html?page=1

Steve Yegge Rant - https://gist.github.com/chitchcock/1281611

Yegge video explaining the rant - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GL7gykr1ZE&t=1933s

Bezos’ book recommendations from the back of “The Everything Store” - https://fs.blog/jeff-bezoss-reading-list/

In this episode, Rina Sarkar and Sara Horsfall join Mike and Matt to share their experiences launching the IQVIA API Marketplace. Topics include the business drivers behind the marketplace, considerations for designing API that drive consumption and positive developer experience, pricing models, as well as diving deep on IQVIA's Natural Language Processing (NLP) APIs.

For more information, check out the NLP APIs here: iqvia.com/nlp-apis

In this episode, George Mitry of Discover Financial® joins Mike and Matt talk to impart wisdom on API strategy in a number of areas. He shares the role APIs play in transforming a company into a product organization, the importance of taxonomies for creating an evolvable architecture,and the distinction between microservices and APIs.

Read George's API strategy series here:

The Iceberg of API Strategy - https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/iceberg-api-strategy-george-mitry/

APIs & Microservices: Different Concepts, Distinct Investment - https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/apis-microservices-different-concepts-distinct-investment-mitry/

The Beginning of Wisdom in API Management - https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/beginning-wisdom-api-management-george-mitry/

And learn more about Discover's transformation here from CIO Amir Arooni:

https://medium.com/tech-discover/the-runway-mission-80-000-feet-5f692927175a

In this episode, Mike and Matt talk to Matthew Skelton and Manuel Pais, authors of the landmark book Team Topologies. They cover the primary constraints of Team Topologies, as well as how they are being used in practice by countless organizations around the globe.

For more information on Team Topologies...

Website: https://teamtopologies.com/

Academy: https://academy.teamtopologies.com/

Upcoming book by Susanne Kaiser: https://www.pearson.com/en-ca/subject-catalog/p/adaptive-systems-with-domain-driven-design-wardley-mapping-and-team-topologies-architecture-for-flow/P200000000359/9780137393039

In this episode, Mike and Matt are joined by Mentrix Group founder Diana Montalion. They discuss the relationship between APIs, software architecture, and non-linear thinking, as well as the most powerful ways that non-linear, systems, and pattern thinking can be applied in the context of digital transformation.

Learn more about Mentrix Group here: https://mentrixgroup.com/

Subscribe to Diana's newsletter here: https://mentrixgroup.com/from-software-to-systems/

In this episode, Mike and Matt discuss Mike's new book: RESTful Web API Patterns & Practices Cookbook. They cover lessons from the web age including key pioneers, API styles, considerations around client and developer experiences, as well as hypermedia APIs and the Hyper CLI tool Mike created for the book.

RESTful Web API Patterns & Practices Cookbook on the web: https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/restful-web-api/9781098106737/

In this episode, Mike and Matt discuss the remarkable life and work of Claude Shannon, inventor of Information Theory, and pioneer of the digital age. They look at how Shannon's work laid the foundation for digital computing, how his personality and environment informed his work, and what lessons can be applied in a modern API context.

For more on Shannon...

The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood - https://www.around.com/the-information/

A Mind at Play: How Claude Shannon Invented the Information Age - https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/A-Mind-at-Play/Jimmy-Soni/9781476766690

A Mathematical Theory of Communication, Claude Shannon - https://people.math.harvard.edu/~ctm/home/text/others/shannon/entropy/entropy.pdf

In this episode, Sean Falconer and Harsh Karmarkar of skyflow.com join Mike and Matt to discuss the importance of data privacy, techniques to balance data privacy and utility, and the role APIs play in this ecosystem.

More on the data privacy/data utility dichotomy:

https://info.skyflow.com/how-fintech-companies-can-break-the-false-dichotomy-of-data-privacy-versus-data-utility?utm_source=radiomulesoft&utm_medium=podcast

In this episode, friend of the show Stephen Fishman joins to discuss how organizations can measure progress on their digital transformations, and why it's so important. He covers where to start, how to design good metrics, and the role APIs can play.