Bill Doerrfeld is a tech journalist and analyst. 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.
Working in the software field, it's not uncommon for engineers to refer to different "layers." Perhaps you're working with protocols at the "networking layer" or evaluating a solution that sits at "Layer ...
Open source is the foundation of most modern software applications. Now more than ever, retaining developers with experience working on and with open source projects is critical to maintaining software development agility ...
There is an ongoing trend in enterprise software: Using GraphQL as an aggregation layer to unify access to underlying data sources and REST APIs. Some call this the supergraph, and others refer ...
The full-stack developer is becoming increasingly rare these days. Due to the accelerating complexity of modern software development, programmers often specialize in specific languages, frameworks or levels of the software stack, such ...
Most folks working in DevOps or SRE roles are familiar with metrics like mean-time-to-recovery (MTTR). Keeping track of the average time a team takes to respond to incidents is crucial to identifying ...
Software systems continue to produce more and more data. And making use of it has proven benefits — so much so that many analysts have, over the years, referred to data as ...
The software supply chain is swiftly becoming a widespread attack vector, and securing it is now in the spotlight. Software supply chain attacks have become a given in 2022, reports Darktrace. SolarWinds, ...
GraphQL has been garnering much interest as a way to seamlessly interact with backend services. The query language is a boon for frontend developers, too, as it conveniently allows you to fetch ...
Companies are under mounting pressure to continuously release new applications and features. And as software development life cycles become more iterative, continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) has become a necessary ingredient ...
Observability is a growing discipline among most IT and operations departments. To release stable software faster, operators need continuous visibility into metrics like performance, uptime and availability. As a result, engineers are ...
