🛠️ Platform Engineering is evolving fast!

Explore trends with Mark Boyd, covering #CICD, developer portals, #APIgovernance, #AI, and productivity metrics.

🔗 https://apiconference.net/api-plattforms-business/platform-engineering-trends-challenges/?loc=ber

Been working on a small framework I’m calling GRAIL (Goal-Resolution through Affordance-Informed Logic). It’s not a planner, not a workflow engine, and success does not depend on an AI/MCP environment.

more here:
github.com/mamund/grail...

#api360 #autonomous #genAI

Embed Quality to Ensure Regulatory Compliance in FinTech Solutions As FinTech races forward, overlooked APIs can jeopardise customer data and violate compliance. Discover why software quality is now a regulatory must-have.

Solid article outlining api governance, the api lifecycle and fintech regulatory compliance: softwaretestingnews.co.uk/embed-qualit...

Interoperability Series - YouTube This short YouTube series breaks down interoperability into four key parts: 1️⃣ What is Interoperability? 2️⃣ Why Interoperability Matters 3️⃣ The 4 Layers o...

We packaged up our interoperability videos and created a deck for easy viewing: youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Global digital health policy maturity assessment indicators Drawing on global digital health policy research and best practices, we discuss how we developed and tested a set of indicators that measure the potential and maturity of an area's digital health poli...

Just published my latest piece on global digital health policy indicators. Over the last few years i have had to create assessment models for clients cos there arent any you can readily use to compare. Here’s the research on building our indicator dataset: platformable.com/blog/global-...

OpenAPI Initiative: New Standards and a Peek at the Roadmap The OpenAPI Overlay Specification makes it easier to repeat the same updates to a description. The OpenAPI Arazzo Specification offers guidance for outlining a sequence of API calls.

OpenAPI Initiative: New Standards and a Peek at the Roadmap OpenAPI is a standard way to describe...

https://thenewstack.io/openapi-initiative-new-standards-and-a-peek-at-the-roadmap/

#API #Management #Open #Source #sponsor-boomi #sponsored-topic

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Introducing the new API for OSI Approved Licenses® The Open Source Initiative (OSI) is excited to announce the availability of a new API service providing access to the canonical list of OSI Approved Licenses®. This service is fully public and free to use.

The Open Source Initiative (OSI) is excited to announce the availability of a new API service providing access to the canonical list of OSI Approved Licenses®. https://opensource.org/blog/introducing-the-new-api-for-osi-approved-licenses

New API Insights Report: Harnessing API Intelligence How we wrote and designed the Harnessing API Intelligence report which looks at API observability and API governance in the AI era

We share a behind the scenes look at how we wrote and designed the Harnessing API Intelligence Report for @treblle.bsky.social and apidays: platformable.com/blog/Harness...

At Platformable we often get asked about how to map an industry or organisational ecosystem. This model outlines the most common stakeholder groups and components so you can use as a template

6 benefits from focusing on interoperability in open digital ecosystems

#APIs are being built faster than ever, but is quality keeping pace? API downtime can cost $100K+ per hour, quality can’t be an assumed.

I’m excited about API Hub for Test, our newest addition to SmartBear’s API Hub with testing directly in your workflow!

smartbear.com/blog/from-de...

#apitesting

OpenAPI Initiative has joined bluesky!

API Governance Maturity Model Our API governance maturity model helps you take stock of where you are and apply actions to help you move forward strategically and efficiently, focusing on quick wins and ensuring you are working on...

We look at api governance maturity and how to move along a path from where you are now to being able to automate wherever possible: platformable.com/blog/api-gov...

Will AI generate value for API developers in 2025? The latest post in our API Economy Trends series is now up

Probably the most important and inspiring piece on AI i have read in the past year and a half is this by @abeba.bsky.social at @aial.ie This piece aligns closely with my motivations and goals around why we need open digital ecosystems that ensure everyone can participate aial.ie/pages/aiparis/

Automate Boilerplate Code: 5 Key Hacks to Speed Up Development Tired of writing the same code? These 5 automation strategies will help you eliminate boilerplate, save time, and enhance consistency in development.

Check out these Top 5 Hacks to making boilerplate code less miserable.
1. Automate API Scaffolding (duh)
2. Use Specs to Generate Models ✅
3. Reuse Middleware & Auth Templates ♻️
4. Streamline Testing Automation (no more manual) 🧪
5. Be Pro Containerization & Orchestration 😄

bit.ly/413NXX8

Why Agentic AI Could Be Doomed To Fail, and 3 More AI Predictions for 2025 If 2024 were the year of generative AI, 2025 would be the year of setting reasonable expectations.

There have been some great pieces this week bringing a reality check to AI. I’ll highlight a couple of my favorite reads. There is this quick one that better situates Agentic AI and its potential by Barr Moses on @thenewstack.io thenewstack.io/why-agentic-...

Always a pleasure chatting with the incredibly knowledgeable @kinlane.bsky.social (aka @apievangelist.com). This time we focused on #Arazzo and the maturing of the #OpenAPI Initiative into a multi-specification project under the @linuxfoundation.org

#apis #apiworkflows

Also @mamund.bsky.social

The Open Digital Traceability Ecosystem The open digital traceability ecosystem model maps all stakeholders and digital public infrastructure components that enable data on commodities to be collected, verified, analysed, shared and used th...

This week we launched our view of the traceability ecosystem. This will be huge for APIs: data is needed to track supply chains from origin source to final consumption, supplier mngt, logistics optimization, nature-based transition planning, ESG reporting and more: platformable.com/blog/the-tra...

Now that we have been listed on the @apievangelist.com starter pack, i better start posting here as well as my more general @markboyd.bsky.social account (which covers my work and my fiction). Thanks to my early followers who have been waiting for this account to spark up!

Let us know what is missing.