The shadow technology problem is getting worse.  Over the past few years, organizations have scaled microservices, ...

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API security has been a growing concern for years. However, while it was always seen as important, it often came second to application security or hardening infrastructure.  In 2025, the picture ...

Pro Tip All 5 of the EDI/API patterns above are forms of a messaging system. ESBs (and webhooks for that matter) are “push” systems, where there’s a conveyor belt of messages that are sent to some ...

Microsoft’s Concise API Design Language has a new name and a larger role to play in building REST, OpenAPI, gRPC, and other services. Some time ago I wrote about the work Microsoft was doing to ...