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What is API Centric?

Author: Daniel CerecedoOn: Jan 31Categories: Blog, Technology No Comments

An API Centric product is any product that exposes a public API as its core distribution channel. What does this mean? We are accustomed to distributing content for humans via web applications and mobile apps. An API distributes content for other machines...

What are advantages and disadvantages of GraphQL, SOAP and REST?

Author: Daniel CerecedoOn: Jan 31Categories: Blog, Technology No Comments

SOA and Service Orientation SOA Web Services (SOAP is just a piece of the technology stack) and ReST are two architectural constraints that solve the same problem: distributing services over the network. The main different between the two is that SOA...

Why Companies are Adopting APIs

Author: Daniel CerecedoOn: Jan 20Categories: Blog, Business, Fintech No Comments

Why Companies are Adopting APIs

Blog, Business, Fintech

As a result of our latest API engagements and interviews with key stakeholders in different organizations, we have identified several entry points to API adoption. These entry points can serve you to open up discussion about why an API is needed and how...

If I were a Bank

Author: Daniel CerecedoOn: Jan 20Categories: Blog, Business, Fintech No Comments

If I were a Bank

Blog, Business, Fintech

Two weeks ago I was attending the London API Days conference. It was focused on Open Banking and the PSD2. Needless to say, there were plenty of attendants from retail banks. The common feeling among these incumbents was fear. They feared disintermediation....

The Hidden Cost of Speed: Statically vs Dynamically Typed Languages

Author: Daniel CerecedoOn: Jan 20Categories: Blog, Technology No Comments

The Hidden Cost of Speed: Statically vs Dynamically Typed Languages

Blog, Technology

Last week I came through this article about results of analyzing more than 2 Million builds in Travis Continuous Integration. As I started reading, the author drew my attention with interesting data when comparing statically typed languages vs dynamic...

Fire the CIO!

Author: Daniel CerecedoOn: Jan 20Categories: Blog, Business No Comments

Fire the CIO!

Blog, Business

It has been a while since Nicholas G. Carr wrote IT doesn’t matter. Nearly 12 years have passed and it remains a common understanding among business functions that IT really doesn’t matter. Competitive Pressure In his article, Nicholas points...

Battlefield REST – API Development from the trenches

Author: Daniel CerecedoOn: Feb 24Categories: Events, Technology No Comments

Battlefield REST – API Development from the trenches

Events, Technology

We presented Battlefield REST at API Days Mediterranea 2014 held in Barcelona. The purpose that we seeked with this talk was to show our internal thinking process: Starting with why we chose to focus on APIs, why we selected the technology stack we did...

Business of APIs 2013

Author: Daniel CerecedoOn: Feb 02Categories: Business, Events No Comments

Business of APIs 2013

Business, Events

This november took place the 7th edition of the Business of APIs conference in London, UK. This event is a great opportunity to meet the leaders in innovation through the use and crafting of APIs. Here we share our insights.