Day: January 27, 2018

These days, every company’s software stack is like a machine with hundreds of parts all hacked together. Each cloud application is just one of those parts, and customers need it to work with every one of the other applications that they already use. So, when new companies enter the market, they usually integrate their app with the other platforms that are most popular with their target customers, making those platforms even more cooperative and thus more successful. This is the Network Economy.

In the network economy, success is exponential. As an app gains more users, it becomes more useful to other potential customers, driving growth. However, companies in the Network Economy can only continue as long as they are able to outperform competitors, sustain new adopters, and retain existing customers. Companies that excel in these areas all have one thing in common, they use The 4 Superheroes of the Network Economy. https://goo.gl/QJAJcg #DataIntegration #ML

ICYDK: 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/VjbmGW #DataIntegration #ML

ICYMI: What Technology Goes Into an API?

APIs are driven by a set of specific technologies, making them easily understood by a wide variety of developers.

A focus on simplicity means that APIs can work with any common programming language and be understood by any programmer, even one with little or no training in API technology. https://goo.gl/NfNNFQ #DataIntegration #ML