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3 commandments that should drive every API strategy

CIO Business Intelligence

The first is that all interfaces among software developed by any team should be through APIs; the second is that teams should write internal APIs as if they were to be consumed by people outside the company. If you’ve bolted APIs on top of your existing legacy software, you are not API first — at least not historically.

Strategy 137
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Living Networks - Chapter 9: The Flow of Services - Reframing Digital and Professional Services

Trends in the Living Networks

For the full Table of Contents and free chapter downloads see the Living Networks website or the Book Launch/ Preface to the Anniversary Edition. Living Networks - Chapter 9: The Flow of Services. Reframing Digital and Professional Services. The jargon in online software has changed over the last years.

Network 60
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The Amazon.com 2010 Shareholder Letter Focusses on Technology.

All Things Distributed

To our shareowners: Random forests, naïve Bayesian estimators, RESTful services, gossip protocols, eventual consistency, data sharding, anti-entropy, Byzantine quorum, erasure coding, vector clocks. Look inside a current textbook on software architecture, and youll find few patterns that we dont apply at Amazon.

SOA 151