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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

OpenAPI Openly Humiliates Themselves

Nov 15

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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

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

Obfuscating Source Code from AI (in Java)

Oct 28

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

Jun 18

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

The Software Mumu

Jun 17

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

Jun 10

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

API Security : ROLES (RBAC/ABAC) Part 2

Jun 7

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

Nodejs API Security : 404 Not Found

Jun 6

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

Jun 6

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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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