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Bill Doerrfeld

http://www.doerrfeld.io/
Bill Doerrfeld is a tech journalist and analyst based in Seattle. His beat is cloud technologies, specifically the web API economy. He began researching APIs as an Associate Editor at ProgrammableWeb, and since 2015 has been the Editor at Nordic APIs, a high impact blog on API strategy for providers. He loves discovering new trends, researching new technology, and writing on topics like DevOps, REST design, GraphQL, SaaS marketing, IoT, AI, and more. He also gets out into the world to speak occasionally.
citizen developers

How To Foster a Culture of Citizen Developers

| application development, citizen developers, developers, Low Code, programming, team, toolset
What can leaders do to encourage a thriving environment of citizen developers in their organization? Over the last several months, businesses of all sizes have had to embrace rapid change, as have ...
progressive delivery

Maintaining Progressive Delivery Quality With Feature Flags

| continuous delivery, feature flags, progressive delivery, QA
How does Netflix know exactly what you want to watch? How do social networks ensure major software updates are smoothly deployed across millions of users? The answer, in part, lies in progressive ...
API security

Tips To Strengthen API Security

| API, API security, devsecops
If you haven’t noticed, digital organizations are building more and more APIs. ProgrammableWeb tracks more than 23,000 public web APIs at the time of writing, and the API market is estimated to ...
financial services database

Financial Services Rise Above in Database DevOps

| database devops, database monitoring, financial services, survey
Financial services, pat yourselves on the back. A new study from Redgate shows financial services have superior database DevOps and database monitoring compared to other sectors. Financial IT appears to outperform other ...
low-code

Help Us Low-Code, You’re Our Only Hope

| COVID-19, low-code solutions
Will low-code solve 2020’s most pressing issues? 2020 is a challenging year. IT timelines are accelerating. The global pandemic pushes more online interaction, and digital transformations slated for years are shortening down ...
observability

5 Steps to Avoid Shadow IT Around Low-Code

| COVID-19, development, Low Code, Shadow IT
Shadow IT is far more pervasive than most CIOs think. Cisco Systems estimates that a typical firm has 15 to 22 times more cloud applications than authorized by the IT department. While ...
report cloud

Report: Cloud Expertise Now Superior to University Degree

| cloud certification, Cloud Computing, cloud expertise, cloud training, DevOps and the cloud
According to a report by online learning platform A Cloud Guru, 90% of IT leaders expect to expand their cloud services usage over the next one to three years, yet only 56% ...
cloud economist

The Rise of the Cloud Economist: The Other CFO

| CFO, Cloud Computing, cloud cost management, cloud management
The new Cloud Economist job title wrangles runaway cloud costs Have you ever forgotten about a subscription? Maybe it was that Amazon Fresh upgrade you never used, charging you monthly payments. Or, ...
DevSecOps

Shifting Left With DevSecOps: ESG Report Exposes Difficulties

| code vulnerabilities, devops, security, survey
A recent report asks the tough questions about DevSecOps adoption, and the results are surprising In a world of increasing development velocity, companies are placing more responsibility on developers to enact quick ...
JAMstack

JAMstack Boards the Enterprise

| serverless, web applications, web development
Set course for development via JavaScript, APIs and Markup. Engage. In recent years, the JAMstack web development trend has garnered interest among front-end web designers. A 2020 study by Netlify found 1 ...