The API Experience Podcast

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

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.

On this episode, Mike and Matt are joined by Aden Forshaw, CEO of That API Company. Aden shares the story of how a personal hack project turned into an API product that is now used by countless individuals and organizations to learn the API space. Within that story, there are many lessons about managing the lifecycle of an API, and especially how to build and nurture an API community. Which is more popular: the Cat API or the Dog API? Have a listen to find out!

For the full story of the Cat API, check out the blog here: https://thatapicompany.com/the-cat-api-a-different-measurement-of-success/

For all API Experience episodes, check out our homepage here: https://boomi.com/boomi-podcasts/

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.