The API consultant James Higginbotham wrote recently about the advantages of adopting an API design-first approach using the “Align-Define-Design-Refine” (ADDR) process. ADDR is an iterative ...

Rather, the API team needs to view the SSKDs as partners in the design with an interest in making the products as great as possible so the end-users can get the best experience possible.

A two-part series of articles about API design at Netflix was recently published in the company’s technology blog. It describes how they solved the problem of ignoring irrelevant message fields ...

Encourage your API designers to use this approach to not only add documentation in the main body of an API design, but also in any libraries you use. There’s a lot to like in Cadl.

Experimental Releases: These releases have not yet been certified for use by Bloomberg customers, but have been released by the API library engineering team in order to address specific issues or ...

RapidAPI, a next-generation API Platform that enables developers and enterprises to find, connect to, and manage thousands of APIs, announced today th ...

The Spell Checking API is a welcome addition to the C++ developer's toolbox. As I mentioned, it supports multiple languages, but it also lets you maintain user-specific settings and dictionaries.

These new capabilities – Bring Your Own Key (BYOK) Encryption, a new capability that puts data protection fully in the hands of the enterprise, and Spec Hub, a developer-friendly API design and ...