Daniel Jacobson (Twitter | LinkedIn), is currently director of engineering for the Netflix API. Prior to Netflix, Daniel ran application development for NPR where, among other things, he created the ...

Microsoft’s Concise API Design Language has a new name and a larger role to play in building REST, OpenAPI, gRPC, and other services. Some time ago I wrote about the work Microsoft was doing to ...

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In the last decade, every web application developer has become an API designer. But most organizations do not think of developers as API designers, nor do they think about APIs as a product of design ...

Unlock the full InfoQ experience by logging in! Stay updated with your favorite authors and topics, engage with content, and download exclusive resources. Birgitta Böckeler, Distinguished Engineer at ...

APIs are the joints of an enterprise. APIs provide extensibility, stability and the capability to move data and workloads around. They let you reach new functionality without growing from scratch.

In a very real way, APIs are technology’s bridges. And like bridges in the physical world, these digital bridges must be engineered carefully to function and last as intended. Designing an API that’s ...