Day: March 16, 2018

ICYDK: I had breakfast with Mike Amundsen (@mamund) and Matt McLarty (@MattMcLartyBC) of the CA API Academy team this morning in midtown. As we were sharing stories of what each other was working on, the topic of what is needed to execute an API call came up. Not the time consuming find an API, sign up for an account, figure out the terms of service and pricing version, but all of this condensed into something that can happen in a split second within applications and systems.

How do we distill down the essential ingredients of API consumption into a single, machine-readable unit that can be automated into what Mike Amundsen calls, “find and bind.” This is something I’ve been thinking a lot about lately as I work on my API discovery research, and there are a handful of elements that need to be present: https://goo.gl/1yZ4jx #DataIntegration #ML

Interactive API documentation is nothing new. We’ve had Swagger UI, and other incarnations for over five years now. We also have API explorers, and full API lifecycle client solutions like Postman to help us engage with APIs, and be able to quickly see responses from the APIs we are consuming. In my effort to keep pushing forward the API documentation conversation I’ve been beating the drum for more visual solutions to be baked into our interactive documentation for a while now, encouraging providers to make the responses we receive much more meaningful and intuitive for consumers.

To help drum up awareness to this aspect of API documentation I’m always on the lookout for any interesting examples of it in the wild. There was the interesting approach out of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and now I’ve seen one out of the web data feeds API provider Webhose.io. When you are making API calls in their interactive dashboard you get a JSON response for things like news articles on the left-hand side, but you also get an interesting slider that will show a visual representation of the JSON response on the right side–making it much more readable to non-developers. https://goo.gl/HzRBFw #DataIntegration #ML

#Technology China Telecom Guangdong (Guangdong Telecom) has used Huawei’s SmartWi-Fi solution to launch China’s first cloud-based smart home management platform. This platform works with an intelligent network consisting of Huawei’s smart gateways and high-performance dual-band APs to greatly improve– home Wi-Fi experience. It provides thousands of homes in Guangdong with high-quality broadband services, allowing home users to enjoy smooth high-speed Internet (HSI) and UHD video services. http://bit.ly/2FL4HHF #Huawei #BigData #AI