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ICYMI: Google has been really moving forward with their development, and storytelling around gRPC. Their high speed to approach to doing APIs that uses HTTP/2 as a transport, and protocol buffers (ProtoBuf) as its serialized message format. Even with all this motion forward they aren’t leaving everyone doing basic web APIs behind, and are actively supporting both approaches across all new Google APIs, as well as in their services and tooling for deploying APIs in the Google Cloud – supporting two-speed APIs side-by-side, across their platform.

When you are using Google Cloud Endpoints to deploy and manage your APIs, you can choose to offer a more RESTful edition, as well as a more advanced gRPC edition. They’ve continued to support this approach across their service features, and tooling, by now also documenting your APIs. As part of their rollout of a supporting API portal and documentation for your Google Cloud Endpoints, you can automatically document both flavors of your APIs. Making a strong case for considering to offer both types of APIs, depending on the types of use cases you are looking to solve, and the types of developers you are catering to. https://goo.gl/jryRiz #DataIntegration #ML

ICYDK: I’ve occasionally needed to extract text and/or images from a PDF. I’ve found a couple of easy, free ways to do this on MacOS.

There’s commercial software such as Adobe Acrobat that will extract images from a PDF, of course, but there’s an easier way: a free application called The Unarchiver that treats a PDF file as if it were a zip file and extracts everything into a folder. Just install the app, then right-click on a PDF file, and select Open With. https://goo.gl/Q62Wus #DataIntegration #ML

In a monthly blog series brought to you by CA API Management, we are exploring how the Internet of Things (IoT) is transforming industries. Today, we are focusing on the enormous IoT opportunity in healthcare.

This month is a good time to highlight healthcare, as the industry has recently made headlines. From the HIMSS conference to updates to the Medicare program, to leading technology companies like Amazon and Apple beginning to participate in the ecosystem, the healthcare industry is changing as technology disrupts traditional services. And most in the industry are saying, ‘finally!’ https://goo.gl/Bz39U9 #DataIntegration #ML