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OpenAPI Openly Humiliates Themselves

So I can’t believe I am telling you this story much less that it occurred. The fact that the OpenAPI maintainers doubled down on something…

Nov 15, 2024

OpenAPI Openly Humiliates Themselves

Nov 15, 2024

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Why Api Gateways Are Dead (1 of 2)

(continue to Why Api Gateways are Dead Part 2 )

Nov 2, 2022

CORRECTION: Redirect should show as a ‘RESPONSE’, not ‘REQUEST’… as a new ‘request/response’ is issued at the proxy/gateway

Nov 2, 2022

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Why API Gateways Are Dead (2 of 2)

( back to Why Api Gateways Are Dead part 1 )

Dec 5, 2022

Why API Gateways Are Dead (2 of 2)

Dec 5, 2022

Why Design-First API’s Fail

You have most likely heard many api people touting the benefits of design first vs code first with people like myself shouting back…

Jan 22

Why Design-First API’s Fail

Jan 22

The Problems With OpenAPI

While OpenAPI has become a popular and widely used specification for RESTful API design, there are several criticisms and limitations…

Jan 15

Jan 15

API RULES vs Description

Not too long ago in web development, there was a framework called Drools which provided a standardized way to manage all your RULES for…

Jan 14

Jan 14

API Security Terminology

API security is something that mystifies nearly everyone having to develop a backend. To ease some of that, here is a list of…

Jan 5

API Security Terminology

Jan 5

Why Openapi Arazzo Fails

Arazzo, as an API flow description framework, faces a number of limitations and challenges when it comes to defining and documenting…

Dec 12, 2024

Dec 12, 2024

Obfuscating Source Code from AI (in Java)

With the advent of AI, open source code is at risk of becoming a plaything for Copilot and other systems to play with however they choose…

Oct 28, 2024

Obfuscating Source Code from AI (in Java)

Oct 28, 2024

Junior Developers Questions Are Not Dumb

Often times we want junior developers to ‘empower’ themselves by Googling a question rather than constantly going to the Senior.

Jun 18, 2024

Jun 18, 2024

The Software Mumu

Too many managers make the same decisions on software in their company… mostly because they do not understand the low-level workings of…

Jun 17, 2024

The Software Mumu

Jun 17, 2024

API Security : Randomly Generated Secret

So one of the ideas I have been playing with for awhile was the idea of randomly generating your ‘secret’ used for token generation and…

Jun 10, 2024

Jun 10, 2024

API Security : ROLES (RBAC/ABAC) Part 2

I write ALOT on securing your API’s… mainly because I see so many mistakes that could be avoided. One of the BIGGEST is lack of RBAC/ABAC…

Jun 7, 2024

API Security : ROLES (RBAC/ABAC) Part 2

Jun 7, 2024

Nodejs API Security : 404 Not Found

There are TONS of companies and people trying to create their API backend in Javascript. In fact, that is what the majority of API jobs ask…

Jun 6, 2024

Nodejs API Security : 404 Not Found

Jun 6, 2024

How I stopped giving a sh*t about AI and learned to embrace (kind of)

The other day I was using the IntelliJ IDE and it was autocompleting or making suggestions as to what I forgot (like a semi colon or…

Jun 6, 2024

Jun 6, 2024

API Security (part 1)

(Note: I will be doing an article on API security every week for the next few weeks)

Jun 5, 2024

API Security (part 1)

Jun 5, 2024

IETF API Catalog vs APIs.json

[UPDATED (06–05–2024) with Apis.json creator response (see below)]

Apr 28, 2024

IETF API Catalog vs APIs.json

Apr 28, 2024

The SpringBoot Language Bias

For the last 6 months, I have openly watched the Springboot advocate, Josh Long, speak about the languages supported by SpringBoot with…

Sep 26, 2023

The SpringBoot Language Bias

Sep 26, 2023

Java vs Groovy Vs Kotlin for Scripting

UPDATE(11/28/2024): Kotlin recently dropped all scripting libraries from the language

Jun 19, 2023

Java vs Groovy Vs Kotlin for Scripting

Jun 19, 2023

Security First vs Api First

At the risk of further alienating myself in the Java community, I was in a chat yesterday with a couple of respected Java developers and I…

Jun 1, 2023

Security First vs Api First

Jun 1, 2023

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API Expert

Owen Rubel is the 'API Expert'. He is an Original Amazon team member, Creator of API Chaining(R), Leader in API Automation

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