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How to enhance your API-first design process https://blog.postman.com/how-to-enhance-your-api-first-design-process/

Playing around with the NVIDIA NVUE API, for automating, customizing and scaling your data center network. in a public workspace. - https://www.postman.com/api-evangelist/workspace/nvidia-apis/documentation/35240-28fb74cb-3f77-48c2-aac4-6f09deaa6740

The People’s Network - The Political Economy of the Telephone in the Gilded Age https://apievangelist.com/2023/03/18/the-peoples-network-the-political-economy-of-the-telephone-in-the-gilded-age/

Build better APIs using the new and improved API Builder - https://blog.postman.com/build-better-apis-using-the-new-and-improved-api-builder/

Building the component model for Wasm - https://www.infoworld.com/article/3689875/building-the-component-model-for-wasm.html

My Personal Evangelism Algorithm - https://apievangelist.com/2023/03/10/my-personal-evangelism-algorithm/

API RANK - Benchmark and ranking of 6031+ public APIs by Escape.Tech - https://apirank.dev/

Contrasting API Contract Testing and Functional Testing - https://apievangelist.com/2023/03/10/contrasting-api-contract-testing-and-functional-testing/

Live By APIs Die By APIs https://apievangelist.com/2023/03/08/live-by-apis-die-by-apis/

I just learned about OpenRTB for the ad industry - OpenRTB is the communication protocol that enables real-time bidding. It was designed to spur growth in RTB marketplaces by providing an open industry standard for communication and interoperability between buyers and sellers in the digital advertising industry. - https://iabtechlab.com/standards/openrtb/

Twitter API error broke the site today as Musk blames “brittle” platform https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/03/twitter-suffered-embarrassing-api-failure-apparently-breaking-all-links/

We Are Just Swiping Credit Cards, Doing Our Accounting Using Multiple Sets of Books, and Do Not Allow Time for Budget Planning in the API Space - https://apievangelist.com/2023/03/06/we-are-just-swiping-credit-cards-doing-our-accounting-using-multiple-sets-of-books-and-do-not-allow-time-for-budget-planning-in-the-api-space/

My #FollowFriday summary for the week:

Five of my recent favorites:

@jbminn
@bpedro
@jonwoodhamsartandphoto
@irreverentmike
@luca
@assaf

Five of my recent followers:

@bobmcwhirter
@webdad3
@neumanndaniel
@HarryHolt1791
@shawnmjones
@BreachCat

Escobar's 4 Hippos have become 130 Hippos in 30 years. I am exploring what the API analogy of this is. Not that I care about finding an API solution, I just want to be able to tell this story in my work. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/03/03/colombia-escobar-hippos/

Why do API specifications matter?

Launching Akita’s Open Beta — Akita Software: https://www.akitasoftware.com/blog-posts/launching-akitas-open-beta

My ScrapingBee journey - https://blog.postman.com/my-scrapingbee-journey/?v=1