Thoughts by José Luis Agell
Tim Berners-Lee invented 20 years ago the World Wide Web. Now, he’s building a web for open, linked data that could do for numbers what the Web did for words, pictures, video: unlock our data and reframe the way we use it together. Thanks Tim for your inspiring lecture. Internet is changing… It’s API time!
A recent article in Computerworld predicts that the current economic downturn will increase the pace of SaaS (Software as a Service) adoption. According to the article “..two weeks ago IDC raised its projected SaaS growth rate for 2009 from 36% to 40.5%. The firm said, recent surveys indicated that the recession would prompt more users to choose subscription-based services over [...]
Since I started to work at 3scale, many people have asked me: “So… what’s an API?”. As it’s kind of difficult to explain, I figured it would be interesting to write a post. My purpose is to be clear, self-explaining and not use many technical words. The term API stands for Application Programming Interface and [...]
