I keep telling my customers, it is not about what you think is important but it is about what your customers (internal, external or partners) see as important when it comes to building APIs and mobile apps, or APIs for … Read more
The PCI tokenization solution show case at NRF was a grand success. I never would have believed the traffic through our booth and the interest. First of all, the show was huge!!! I am not kidding. Last year the attendance … Read more
As an Enterprise Architect for Intel IT, I worked with IT Engineering and our Software and Services group on the elastic scaling of the APIs that power the Intel AppUp® center. Our goal was to scale our APIs to at … Read more
Recently the government of Singapore passed a bill (or “Gazetted” as they call it, which sounds a lot fancier) about protecting personal data of consumers: http://www.mica.gov.sg/DPbillconsultation/Annex%20D_Draft%20PDP%20Bill%20for%20Consultation.pdf “Protection of personal data 26. An organisation shall protect personal data in its custody … Read more
Intel recently released what we call a composite API platform with our new API Manager product. What exactly do we mean by this? A composite platform is a single platform for API management that handles both Public (sometimes called “Open”) … Read more
This Thursday, I will be presenting a webinar with Forrester covering 4 Building Blocks to Mobilize Your Enterprise App Strategy. As we prepared for this talk, Mike and I talked about a few trends that are emerging in response to … Read more
Recently a colleague and a friend of mine wrote a great article about different ways to be PCI 2.0 compliant by tokenizing PAN data. If in case you missed it I want to draw your attention to it. Essentially, if … Read more
I was at dinner with a friend who was considering enrolling in a survey class on client side web technologies. The course would cover things like JavaScript, Silverlight, HTML5, Adobe flash and the like. As she was talking, I was … Read more
Kin Lane recently wrote a couple of blogs about why copyrighting an API is not common. I couldn’t agree more that copyrighting APIs is uncommon. First of all, the API definition is just an interface (It is the implementation detail … Read more
