Day: January 15, 2018

I spend a lot of my time refactoring code across a very large, legacy codebase at work. Often times, I’ll do a search for something and work my way through the results over a period of days. Sometimes, something I see might lead me to do another search and a minor refactoring job which is part of the overall refactoring job. Hence, sometimes I end up with a “stack” of different searches which represents all the parts of the overall refactoring job. In each of these search results, it’s important to not “lose my place” as I go down the list.

WebStorm/IntelliJ/PyCharm support this workflow really well: https://goo.gl/6oQ2PE #DataIntegration #ML

I broke this area of my research into a separate stop a couple years back, as I saw several new types of service providers emerging to provide a new type of web-based API client. These new tools allowed you to consume, collaborate, and put APIs to use without writing any code. I knew that this shift was going to be significant, even though it hasn’t played out as I expected, with most of the providers disappearing, or being acquired, and leaving just a handful of solutions that we see today.

These new web API clients allow for authentication, and the ability to quickly copy and paste API URLs, or the importing of API definitions to begin making requests and seeing responses for targeted APIs. These clients were born out of earlier API explorers and interactive API documentation, but have matured into standalone services that are doing interesting things with how we consume APIs. Here are the three web API clients I recommend you consider as part of your API lifecycle. https://goo.gl/2Npfkc #DataIntegration #ML