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.
The GraphQL query language is an excellent tool for increasing the ease of data sharing. The premise is that you request the fields you need in a single bundled request, avoiding multiple ...
Since its open source release in 2015, GraphQL has taken the development world by storm. GraphQL, the query language originally developed by Facebook, is a big boon for frontend developers, as it ...
It comes in many shapes and sizes and is embraced as a necessary evil. It lurks in the shadows, emerging now and again to stealthily creep into our workflows, where it feasts ...
If you're just getting into site reliability engineering (SRE) or platform engineering, you've probably come across a bunch of new terminologies, like SLI, SLA and SLO. These benchmarks are commonly referenced in ...
The interest in Web3 is heating up. We've seen major excitement around blockchain and new Web3 protocols that are poised to reinvent the web as we know it. But it's hard to ...
In 2019, I wrote a post detailing the traits of DevSecOps—the practice can be defined as the process of security automation in which IT and security are more de-siloed. DevSecOps introduces a ...
Continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) has become a hallmark of quick software release life cycles. Nowadays, many teams support CI/CD pipelines for their software, offering a repeatable pathway to build, test ...
Lately, new ESG initiatives have come front-and-center as companies seek to contextualize and limit their business's impact on the environment. This is especially true for the built world—a term that refers to ...
How fast is real-time? According to Robert Miller's 1968 seminal study on human-computer interaction, we perceive a response time of 100 milliseconds or less as instantaneous. This is much quicker than the ...
The application programming interface (API) economy is chugging along full steam ahead. The API management market alone is expected to expand 35% by 2025, supported by the sheer number of web APIs ...
