Bill Doerrfeld is a tech journalist and analyst. His beat is cloud technologies, specifically the web API economy. He began researching APIs as an Associate Editor at ProgrammableWeb, and since 2015 has been the Editor at Nordic APIs, a high impact blog on API strategy for providers. He loves discovering new trends, researching new technology, and writing on topics like DevOps, REST design, GraphQL, SaaS marketing, IoT, AI, and more. He also gets out into the world to speak occasionally.
APIs are the building blocks of modern software, and their use continues to grow around the globe. A full 89% of investment into APIs will increase or stay the same over the ...
Although we discuss infrastructure automation often, the fact is that a lot of manual processes still exist throughout DevOps. Whether it's rewriting scripts to spin up new servers, updating cloud-native policies or configuring ...
In recent years, the need to construct end-to-end digital experiences has become increasingly important. But to deliver new features and services promptly, organizations must double down on agility and reusability. As part ...
Developer experience is where it's at! Developer experience (DX) means taking a user experience approach to the developer journey. DX (also abbreviated as DevEx) is commonly applied to areas like documentation, sandbox ...
GraphQL, the open source query language, has been steadily growing in popularity over the past few years. The language is excellent for frontend development, as it creates a usable interface to fetch ...
There's no doubt we're now living in a hybrid multi-cloud age. Companies are using major cloud providers like AWS, Azure and GCP with niche cloud computing providers emerging within the market. Simultaneously, ...
For a long time, people have been logging into the apps they use via passwords or password managers. And many open standards and identity providers on the market continue to evolve how ...
Organizations continue to increase their footprint in the cloud. Yet, applying governance and enforcing policies across multiple cloud environments at scale is a challenging endeavor. Organizations typically have governance policies written in ...
Ideally, DevOps should retain a lean footprint, but avoiding technical debt is easier said than done. As such, over half of IT leaders report technical debt is a big or critical problem ...
The debate about how to secure GraphQL rages on. Many organizations are hesitant to adopt GraphQL for public-facing APIs as there is no precise method to handle authorization concerns as of yet ...
