Businesses often struggle with breaking out of the mindset that APIs are solely meant for integrations. In this episode, Chris Hood chats with Raymond Peng, a Global Value Advisor at Google Cloud, to understand how businesses can leverage APIs to improve efficiencies, increase revenue, and navigate changing market demands. Many enterprise technology leaders value APIs primarily for their role in enterprise application integration (EAI), in which the objective is to interconnect applications across a company’s aggregate IT environment to facilitate the flow of information. Older iterations of EAI mechanisms, such as the enterprise service bus (ESB), have been largely supplanted by API …
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Online learning has evolved tremendously over the last decade, and as technology has helped us learn through new channels, it has also developed new challenges that some argue put learners in a passive role and reduce interactivity. In a recent article, eServe spoke with a few digital specialists and e-learning companies to look at how effective videos are in the training and educational process. Included in the article, Chris Hood shared some thoughts, “true video learning should be developed out of content the viewer truly desires to learn. If the desire to learn is genuine and the materials are something …
The 4th Industrial Revolution is upon us, and it’s time to embrace it. Robotics, artificial intelligence, the internet of things, are all built on the foundation of APIs (Application Programming Interfaces). Jennifer Yeadon at SmartFile just posted a great piece about the Benefits of API-First Design. APIs are everywhere and unless you live off the grid or on a private island with no cell reception, you’ve interacted with an API. This interconnectivity is often a result of API-first design. “APIs are being used in the real world today, from rewards points when buying coffee, to tracking which parking meters are …
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