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The official home of the APIs Uncensored podcast, a monthly series where Ole Lensmar and Lorinda Brandon blather about all things APIs with experts in the industry.
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December 2015, Episode 9: Catching Up with John Sheehan (Runscope)
0:00 - 02:49 Welcome and the rules that don't matter (why do we say them?)
02:50 - 06:45 John Sheehan's sordid past, including Rest# and how it pays for his parking
06:46 - 09:52 The birth and growth of Runscope
09:53 - 21:40 The birth and growth of API Monitoring (and how Lorinda & Ole were ahead of the curve but John was cooler)
21:41 - 24:00 Ole just has to talk about SOAP and John has a product name he wants to steal
24:00 - 44:30 Topic of the day: John's Starbucks cup, but mostly Webhooks (although John really wanted to talk about hockey)
44:31 - 56:00 Our favorite API news stories (Traffic & Weather, DevOps burn-out, APIstrat, Mashape & Paw, WordPress rewrite, Swift goes open source)
56:00 - 56:50 Ole forgets our email address again (apisuncensored@smartbear.com)
Resources:
http://runscope.com
http://www.infoworld.com/article/3009004/devops/why-devops-is-burning-out-developers.html
http://clarify.io/blog/api-strategy-conference-2015-recap/
http://www.programmableweb.com/news/mashape-hopes-to-simplify-api-development-paw-partnership/2015/06/04
https://github.com/apple/swift -
Episode 8: August 2015 - Catching Up with Vanessa Meyer (Load Impact)
0:00 - 2:02 The usual ... intros and rules that don't matter (wherein Vanessa calls herself a "love refugee")
2:03 - 3:29 Who is Load Impact? What do they do and why?
3:30 - 29:00 Load test approaches and behaviors, API load testing concerns and strategies, general market observations
29:01 - 51:30 Maybe the Topic of the Day... marketing your API and more about load testing tools, strategies, industry, how marketing and load testing go together... just a lot of wandering conversation about API stuff
51:31 - 1:12:11 Our favorite news stories (see links below)
1:12:12 - 1:13:00 Ole remembers our email address!! (apisuncensored@smartbear.com)
Links:
Love Refugees: http://lostinstockholm.com/2009/02/09/the-love-refugee-project/
Load Impact: http://loadimpact.com
FaceBook API issue: http://phys.org/news/2015-01-facebook-outage-affecting-users-worldwide.html#inlRlv
Absolut Vodka API: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpUAaBalq-Y
Nordic APIs: http://nordicapis.com
REST bashing: http://www.draconianoverlord.com/2015/08/11/rest-is-aging-graphql.html
APIMatic: http://apimatic.io
Medisafe & Human API: http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/08/18/medisafe-human-api-idUSnPn82GGcz+8c+PRN20150818