ProgrammableWeb's Developers Rock Podcast

Sendbird has announced the addition of voice and video calling APIs to augment its existing chat and messaging API offering. The technology relies on the World Wide Web Consortium's WebRTC standard and offers customers an opportunity to consolidate their in-app communications down to one vendor. In this edition of ProgrammableWeb's Developers Rock Podcast, PW editor in chief David Berlind catches up with Sendbird CEO and co-founder John Kim to find out more about the company and the announcement. To get a full-text transcript of this presentation, go to: https://www.programmableweb.com/news/john-kim-ceo-and-co-founder-sendbird/analysis/2020/04/03

According to MuleSoft's 2020 Benchmark Connectivity Report, virtually all enterprises see digital transformation as being critical to their success. But, unfortunately, a majority of IT leaders still picture themselves as keeping the lights on versus innovating. In the edition of ProgrammableWeb's Developers Rock Podcast, ProgrammableWeb editor-in-chief David Berlind interviews MuleSoft Director of Solutions Engineering Ani Pandit to find out more about the findings of the report and what it means for businesses. To get a copy of MuleSoft's 2020 Benchmark Connectivity Report, go to: https://api.pw/benchmark To get a full-text transcript of this presentation, go to: https://www.programmableweb.com/news/69-percent-it-leaders-are-keeping-lights-instead-innovating-enter-apis/interview/2020/03/19

In this edition of ProgrammableWeb's Developers Rock Podcast, David Berlind, editor in chief of ProgrammableWeb interviews Andrew Lawrence, director of product management at Commerce Cloud at Salesforce to find out more about the new Commerce Cloud developer portal, which, for the first time, allows anonymous developers to come and experiment with 20 different APIs. To see the video version of this interview or to get a full-text transcript of this presentation, go to: https://www.programmableweb.com/news/salesforce-commerce-cloud-exposes-apis-to-public-new-try-you-buy-developer-portal/interview/2020/03/18

While private sector companies such as Amazon, Facebook, Google, etc. draw closer to perfected digital states, the public sector (government agencies and organizations) are woefully behind in their pursuit of digital transformation. In bringing together developers, civic techies, and government officials, Code for America is hoping to change that by inspiring developers and other citizens into fulfilling their civic duty. In this podcast, ProgrammableWeb editor-in-chief David Berlind interviews Code for America founder Jen Pahlka to learn more about the Code for America Summit. (Editor's Note: While the Code for America Summit in Wash, DC has been canceled due to the coronavirus pandemic, the organization is currently exploring its virtual event options) To get a full-text transcript of this presentation, go to: https://www.programmableweb.com/news/post-corona-code-america-looks-to-join-devs-civic-techies-and-gov-officials-to-transform-govops/interview/2020/03/06

In this edition of ProgrammableWeb's Developers Rock Podcast, ProgrammableWeb editor-in-chief David Berlind chats with Contentful VP Benjamin Keyser about the idea of an API-first "headless" content management system and what his company is doing to accelerate the developer path to "Hello API." To get a full-text transcript of this presentation, go to: https://www.programmableweb.com/news/contentful-benjamin-keyser/interview/2020/03/12

In this special presentation of ProgrammableWeb's Developers Rock Podcast from the Washington, DC-area API Meetup on Feb 4, 2020, ProgrammableWeb.com editor-in-chief David Berlind delivers part 2 of his long-running college course on APIs (a new chapter will be delivered at each monthly DC API meetup). In this second chapter (following up to chapter 1), Berlind reviews the importance of API contracts and what it means for Web APIs to decouple API clients from API servers. And then he gives some real-world examples of how that decoupled nature of Web APIs affords some amazing flexibility to the organizations that pursue the idea of API-led application networks. ProgrammableWeb.com editor-in-chief David Berlind is the co-organizer of the DC-Area API Meetup. We're always looking for more attendees, speakers, and sponsors (the sponsors buy the pizza). For more information about the meetup, go to: https://www.meetup.com/DC-Web-API-User-Group/ To get a full-text transcript of this presentation go to: https://www.programmableweb.com/news/how-decoupled-nature-web-apis-gives-you-incredible-flexibility/analysis/2020/02/28 To see more videos from the DC API Meetup Playlist go to: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLcgRuP1JhcBP6xnZKkzLMHfMRBMl62OqU To see a list of articles on ProgrammableWeb that include the DC API Meetup Videos along with their full transcripts go to: https://www.programmableweb.com/category/dc-area-api-meetup

In this episode of ProgrammableWeb's Developers Rock podcast, ProgrammableWeb's David Berlind and Bob Reselman talk GraphQL with Geoff Schmidt, co-founder of Apollo GraphQL; the leading solution provider for standing-up GraphQL-based APIs. Support for platforms beyond Apollo GraphQL's native support for node.js and federation of "the graphs" were some of the many topics covered in this interview. A full-text transcript of this video can be found on ProgrammableWeb at: https://www.programmableweb.com/news/apollo-graphql-co-founder-geoff-schmidt-discusses-federation-graph-video/interview/2020/02/25

Twilio has released its annual State of Customer Engagement Report and to find out more about the report and the trends that it spotlights (including challenges with robocalls and the role of AI in improving the customer experience), ProgrammableWeb's editor-in-chief David Berlind captured a video interview with Al Cook, the company's Vice President and General Manager of Artificial Intelligence. A complete text transcript of this podcast can be found at: https://www.programmableweb.com/news/interview-al-cook-vp-and-general-manager-artificial-intelligence-twilio/interview/2020/02/20

In this special presentation of ProgrammableWeb's Developers Rock Podcast from the Washington, DC-area API Meetup on Dec 5, 2019, Oddball.io CTO Rob Wilkinson breaks down the two most important phases of launching successful APIs for the federal government. 1. The key components such as the API's value proposition, tracking its growth, offering self service developer accounts and knowing the path to production. 2. How to get it done which involves the governance, the technology, and the marketing (generate awareness) ProgrammableWeb.com editor-in-chief David Berlind is the co-organizer of the DC-Area API Meetup. We're always looking for more attendees, speakers, and sponsors (the sponsors buy the pizza). For more information about the meetup, go to: https://www.meetup.com/DC-Web-API-User-Group/

In this special presentation of ProgrammableWeb's Developers Rock Podcast from the Washington, DC-area API Meetup on Nov 5, 2019, calletime.ai co-founder Adam Becker shows attendees how he and his partner collaborated to stand-up an API endpoint in almost no time using three Amazon Web Services (AWS); S3, Lambda, and API Gateway. In the video, he make some important points about taking a DevOps-based approach to provisioning services; namely that all infrastructure should be provisioned with code that's written specifically to do the provisioning as opposed to manually going into the AWS console and fiddling with the various forms and parameters. Becker even shares the code so that anyone else can provision an API endpoint with code in exactly the same way he does it. ProgrammableWeb.com editor-in-chief David Berlind is the co-organizer of the DC-Area API Meetup. We're always looking for more attendees, speakers, and sponsors (the sponsors buy the pizza). For more information about the meetup, go to: https://www.meetup.com/DC-Web-API-User-Group/

In this special edition of ProgrammableWeb's Developers Rock Podcast from DC-Area API Meetup on Oct 1, 2019, Accrue Ltd. founder and CEO Benoit Brookens III talks about the concept of alternative data (data that at first seems unrelated to the trend you're analyzing) and how it can be used to improve predictive analysis. In his presentation, Brookens looks back at typhoons that were rated as 8 or higher and correlates their timing to movement in financial markets. To see the article that contains the full text transcript of this presentation go to: https://www.programmableweb.com/news/dc-area-api-meetup-how-alternative-data-api-can-be-used-to-improve-predictive-analysis/analysis/2020/01/14 ProgrammableWeb.com editor-in-chief David Berlind is the co-organizer of the DC-Area API Meetup. We're always looking for more attendees, speakers, and sponsors (the sponsors buy the pizza). For more information about the meetup, go to: https://www.meetup.com/DC-Web-API-User-Group/

In this special presentation of ProgrammableWeb's Developers Rock Podcast from the Washington, DC-area API Meetup on Oct 1, 2019, Epigen Senior Information Security Architect Trevor Bryant decides it's time to get smart about the art of securing APIs. And this is where things go sideways. As it turns out, there's no one-stop shop to get smart about API security. No API security bible. So Bryant retraces his steps as he attempts to become an overnight expert on the topic of API Security. To see the article that includes the full-text transcript of this presentation, go to: https://www.programmableweb.com/news/dc-area-api-meetup-government-security-architect-attempts-to-learn-about-api-security/analysis/2020/01/15 ProgrammableWeb.com editor-in-chief David Berlind is the co-organizer of the DC-Area API Meetup. We're always looking for more attendees, speakers, and sponsors (the sponsors buy the pizza). For more information about the meetup, go to: https://www.meetup.com/DC-Web-API-User-Group/

In this special presentation of ProgrammableWeb's Developers Rock Podcast from the Washington, DC-area API Meetup on Dec 5, 2019, ProgrammableWeb.com editor-in-chief David Berlind kicks off his long running college series on APIs (a new chapter will be delivered at each monthly DC API meetup). In this first chapter, Berlind reviews the definition of an API, discusses the role APIs play in decoupling API consumers from API providers, offers some real world analogies to help understand the idea of an API's technical contract, and explains what it was that made Web APIs so special as a part of the long history of networkable APIs. ProgrammableWeb.com editor-in-chief David Berlind is the co-organizer of the DC-Area API Meetup. We're always looking for more attendees, speakers, and sponsors (the sponsors buy the pizza). For more information about the meetup, go to: https://www.meetup.com/DC-Web-API-User-Group/ To get a full text transcript of this presentation go to: https://www.programmableweb.com/news/what-api-and-why-does-api-contract-matter-so-much/analysis/2020/01/24

APIMetrics CEO and co-founder David O'Neill updates ProgrammableWeb.com editor-in-chief David Berlind on what his company is up to and the launch of it's newest service; API.Metrics

In this edition of the ProgrammableWeb.com Developers Rock Podcast, Curity.io CEO and co-founder Travis Spencer explains why he thinks its a better idea to rely on a dedicated appliance to handle identity management for API access. The approach to API identity management is modeled after the design of routers that do only a few things but do them really really well, and do them at scale. A complete text transcript of this podcast can be found at https://www.programmableweb.com/news/how-curityios-api-identity-server-designed-scale-availability-and-configurability/sponsored-content/2020/01/24

ProgrammableWeb editor-in-chief David Berlind interviews Telesign director of product management Vince Oh. While you may not have heard of Telesign, you have no doubt encountered its APIs as a customer of some enterprise that uses them to not only authenticate the legitimacy of new registrants, but also to drive improved customer engagement. One reason Telesign is able to do this is because of the information that's available to it as a subsidiary of BICS; one of the world's largest providers of global roaming solutions. In the course of providing those solutions, BICS is able to collect the sort of data (and route it to Telesign) that other SMS API providers (and cPaaSes) cannot easily access.

In its API-driven PrizmDoc Suite, Accusoft offers organizations a collection of document workflow capabilities that can significantly extend the shared document storage and retrieval functions of today's document management solutions. ProgrammableWeb's editor-in-chief David Berlind interviews Accusoft's Vice President of Product Steve Wilson to find out more about what the solution is capable of and why customers have a choice of deploying it to the cloud, or on-premises, behind organizational firewalls.

According to Ben Dowling, founder of IPInfo, an API provider specializing in IP-based geolocation, the key to success is staying customer-driven. Of course, when your organization is an API provider, "customer-driven" is synonymous with "developer-driven." In this interview with ProgrammableWeb editor-in-chief David Berlind, Dowling explains what IPInfo does and how it's diversifying to ensure that developers view the API provider as being the leader in its niche.

Recent research indicates that, across organizations surveyed, old point-to-point integration habits are dying hard. In fact, they could be getting worse, resulting in an increasingly intractable situation as enterprises struggle to digitally transform themselves and avoid fatal disruption.

Fresh off the Salesforce.com's acquisition of the company he founded (MuleSoft), Ross Mason is now applying his entrepreneurial thinking to the burgeoning areas of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML). Mason has a theory -- one that makes perfect sense -- about how organizations that lack the right nervous systems (aka: API-led application networks) will not be able to fully leverage these new technologies. The result he says will be something like a "brain in a jar." Mason also discusses some of his favorite areas of AI and the responsibilities that go with bringing AI technology to the market.