API

Best of 2023: ‘Scrum == Cancer’ ¦ Plus: Linux 6.5 Ships
In this week’s #TheLongView: Scrum sucks, sources say; and here comes the Linux 6.5 kernel ...

Best of 2023: Don’t Build Microservices, Pursue Loose Coupling
Teams that embrace loose coupling are better equipped to respond to challenges, gain a competitive advantage and adapt to a constantly changing tech landscape ...

Microsoft kills Python 3.7 ¦ … and VBScript ¦ Exascaling ARM on Jupiter
In this week’s #TheLongView: VS Code drops support for Python 3.7, Windows drops VBScript, and Europe plans the fastest ARM supercomputer ...

Raspberry Pi 5: Faster, Better, Stronger — Spendier
In an extra #TheLongView: Everyone’s favorite single-board ARM computer, the Raspberry Pi, has a new generation coming soon ...

Teleport Assist Leverages Generative AI to Democratize DevOps
Teleport Assist makes use of OpenAI's generative AI APIs to enable DevOps teams to troubleshoot infrastructure issues more easily ...

How to Prevent Zombie APIs
There is a growing reliance on web APIs. A full 92% of organizations plan to increase their investments into APIs over the next year, the 2023 Postman State of the API Report ...

Overture Maps’ Challenge to Google ¦ Frontier Model Forum’s AI Safety Shtick
In this week’s #TheLongView: A big-tech consortium goes toe-to-toe with Google Maps, and a big-tech consortium tries to fool AI regulators ...

AI ‘is Getting Worse’ ¦ AI ‘Will Lose India Jobs’ (Probably Isn’t ¦ Probably Won’t)
In this week’s #TheLongView, a conundrum: On the one hand, researchers say ChatGPT is losing the plot; and on the other, outsourced coding jobs in India will be replaced by AI ...

Google Announces Availability of iPaaS Service
Google today made available an integration platform-as-a-service (iPaaS) capable of invoking a range of methods to integrate applications ...

Postman Acquires Akita Software to Gain API Observability
Postman has acquired Akita Software to gain access to a platform for monitoring and observing application programming interfaces (APIs) ...

State of API Report Highlights Productization and Generative AI
Postman's fifth annual State of the API report sheds light on the ongoing API productization movement and API developers' use of generative AI ...

Threads: Twitter Killer or Ad-Infested Hellscape?
In this week’s #TheLongView: Meta launches its much-leaked Threads microblogging app. A spinoff from Instagram, it’s already reached 30 million signups at the time of writing. How is Meta’s DevOps team making ...