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Continuous Integration with Drone: Best practices for devops leveraging the power of Docker

Author: ByteflairOn: Mar 28Categories: Library No Comments

This report is focused in presenting Drone, a developer centric continuous integration and continuous deployment system entirely based on Docker containers. The report covers the following points: What is continuous integration?, Benefits of implementing...

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...

Patterns for API Centric Architectures

Author: ByteflairOn: Nov 03Categories: Blog, Events, Technology 1 Comment

2015 has been the third year in a row participating in API Days. The first year we won the Hackaton in the API Development category. The second year we participated as speaker and in 2015 we gave two talks: the first one showcasing and comparing all...

Skyrocketing REST APIs en Codemotion

Author: ByteflairOn: Nov 03Categories: Blog, Events, Tecnología No Comments

Skyrocketing REST APIs en Codemotion

Blog, Events, Tecnología

Dimos esta charla en Codemotion 2014 y nos pidieron repetirla para el Codemotion Meetup de Junio de 2015. Espero que os resulte interesante y si tenéis dudas hacédnoslas llegar. Estaremos encantados de responder. Comenzamos la charla repasando los...

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...

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