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APIs: Oofda!
Continuing a conversation from my previous podcast episode on Constant Variables, I was invited back to attempt to demystify a common technology that appears more complicated than necessary – APIs. I think it is a great listen for any beginning or junior developer, before they start creating APIs. It covers topics like:
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Startup Mentality, API Management, and Corporate Apps
In this 2021 podcast, I had the chance to talk about a lot of passions for how I think about startup culture can influence the corporate environment. Topics included:
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What your company website’s source code is saying about your business
We can apply Conway’s Law to learn about a company’s structure and values, and the lessons are insightful to insiders & outsiders Catapulted into most developer’s set of oft-quoted computer laws by The Mythical Man Month, Conway’s Law says: Organizations which design systems are constrained to produce designs which are copies of the communication structures of these organizations…
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InnerSource – Using open source best practices to help your company
At Minnebar in March 2017, I spoke to developers about a way to improve their corporate cultures by piggy backing on some best practices from the open source community. It remains a topic that I believe in (at least of 2024), but one that remains difficult for large corporations to adopt.
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API Innovation at Best Buy
In 2017, I was interviewed by Get Put Post and spoke about API Innovation. There isn’t much thought provoking material in it, largely because there’s only so much you can say while wearing the hat of a publicly traded company, but it was still a great opportunity to launch the next chapter of the company’s…
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The Blessings and Curses of Offering a Free Public API
In 2016, I gave a presentation at API World. The topic was “The Blessings and Curses of Offering a Free Public API“. This was before Twitter made accessing their API a challenge, and Reddit also raised their API fees. Although the topic was appropriate for its time, the audience for this messaging was miniscule. It…