Microsoft R Open 3.5.1 has been released, combining the latest R language engine with multi-processor performance and tools for managing R packages reproducibly. You can download Microsoft R Open…
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Thinking Deeply About Other People Using Your API Is The Most Valuable Lesson Of API Design
#ICYDK: I am deploying a patent review API for a client, using data from the Patent Examination Data System (PEDS). You can download complete JSON or XML data from the United States Patent Office (USPTO), and they even have an API. So, why would I be launching yet another API? Well, because what they have is so cryptic, complex, and lacking in any schema or API design, there is value in me pushing the API conversation forward a bit by thinking deeply about how other people will potentially be using these resources — something the USPTO clearly hasn’t done.
The USPTO PEDS API (that is more acronyms than you can shake a stick at) is a great example of how much database people and developers take for granted as they operate within their little bubbles, without much concern for how the rest of the world views their work — take a look at the screenshot of the USPTO PEDS API. https://goo.gl/wZDHqM #DataIntegration #ML
Kicking the Tires on the SAP API Business Hub
I told the folks over at SAP that I would take a look at their API Business Hub. It isn’t paid work, just helping provide feedback on another addition to the API discovery front, something I’m pretty committed to helping push forward in any way that I can. They’ve pulled together a pretty clean, OpenAPI driven catalog of useful APIs for the enterprise, so I wanted to make sure I kick the tires and size it up alongside the other API discovery work I am doing.
The SAP API Business Hub is a pretty simple and clean catalog for searching and browsing applications, integrations, as well as APIs — I am going to focus in on the API section, which at first glance looks to have about 70 separate APIs, but then you notice each of them are just umbrellas for each API platform, and some of them contain many different API endpoints. Some of the APIs are simple language translation and text extraction resources, while others provide robust access to the SAP S/4HANA Cloud, SAP Ariba, and other SAP systems. You see a lot of SAP focused solutions, but then you also see a handful of partner solutions added via their platform partner program. https://goo.gl/HVh3o7 #DataIntegration #ML
RESTful Architecture 101
#ICYDK: The Representational State Transfer (REST) architectural style is not a technology you can purchase or a library you can add to your software development project. REST is a worldview that elevates information into a first-class element of the architectures we build.
The ideas and terms used to describe “RESTful” systems were introduced and collated in Dr. Roy Fielding’s thesis, “Architectural Styles and the Design of Network-based Software Architectures.” This an academic document, but is comprehensible and convenient by providing the basis of RESTful architecture. https://goo.gl/KoLqdH #DataIntegration #ML