Cargolux and DB Schenker connected via API for quotes and booking

https://theloadstar.com/cargolux-and-db-schenker-connected-via-api-for-quotes-and-booking/

"The API interface allows DB Schenker to directly connect its operating system to Cargolux’s system to receive quotes and book their freight onboard a Cargolux flight."

#apiNews #apiIntegration

Event Sourcing Versus Event-Driven Architecture

https://medium.com/geekculture/event-sourcing-versus-event-driven-architecture-753aa5a5d0f6

"event-sourcing involves using events to persist the data changes. In contrast, event-driven architecture is about communicating events with data changes between service boundaries."

#apiNews #apiDesign

A Harvard brain expert shares 6 things he never does in order to stay ‘sharp, energized and healthy’

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/12/16/harvard-brain-expert-shares-what-he-never-does-in-order-to-stay-sharp-energized-healthy.html

"To continue staying sharp, energized and healthy, here are six things I never do:"

#apiNews #health

PALMER:Perception-Action Loop with Memory for Long-Horizon Planning

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2212.04581.pdf

"The end result is an experiential framework for long-horizon planning that is significantly more robust and sample efficient compared to existing methods."

#apiNews #robotics #aiPlanning

Researchers say time is an illusion. So why are we all obsessed with it?

https://www.npr.org/2022/12/16/1139780043/what-is-time-physics-atomic-clocks-society

"as technology to better count the time grows ever more sophisticated, our everyday understanding of time itself may need to start changing."

#apiNews #time

New BladeRobots serve wind turbines ‘4 times faster’ than conventional methods

https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/bladerobots-improve-wind-turbine-performance

"AI is used by the robotic solution to swiftly adapt to all types of blades used in the sector."

#apiNews #ai #robotics

Design Rules: The Power of Modularity

https://direct.mit.edu/books/book/1856/Design-RulesThe-Power-of-Modularity

"Using the computer industry as an example, Carliss Y. Baldwin and Kim B. Clark develop a powerful theory of design and industrial evolution. They argue that the industry has experienced previously unimaginable levels of innovation and growth because it embraced the concept of modularity..."

#apiNews #apiDesign

The next step in ecommerce? Replatform with APIs and micro frontends

https://stackoverflow.blog/2022/12/12/the-next-step-in-ecommerce-replatform-with-apis-and-micro-frontends/

"On this sponsored podcast episode, Ben and Ryan talk with Filippo Conforti, co-founder of Commerce Layer, an API-only ecommerce platform that focuses on the transaction engine."

#apiNews #api360

Self-Driving Taxis Are Causing All Kinds of Trouble in San Francisco

https://slate.com/technology/2022/12/san-francisco-waymo-cruise-self-driving-cars-robotaxis.html

"They’ve blocked traffic, driven on the sidewalk, sped away from cops—and the city is powerless to stop them."

#apiNews #selfDriving

The State of APIs in the Container Ecosystem

https://www.infoq.com/presentations/api-container-ecosystem/

"[T]here's not one clear, overarching component when we talk about containers. There's runtimes. There's Kubernetes. There's OCI and runC."

#apiNews #conatiners #automation

APIs Help Lean Accounts Payable Departments Do More With Less

https://www.pymnts.com/api/2022/apis-help-lean-accounts-payable-departments-do-more-with-less/

"[A]n increasing number of firms have given their finance teams approval to automate their activities through API or with other technologies."

#apiNews #automation

When women stopped coding

https://www.npr.org/2022/12/07/1141358586/women-coders-programming-computer-science

"[A] lot of computing pioneers, the ones who programmed the first digital computers, were women. And for decades, the number of women in computer science was growing. But in 1984, something changed. The number of women in computer science flattened, and then plunged."

#apiNews #womenInTech

Top 5 Transformative Fintech Spaces to Watch in 2023

https://fintechnews.sg/67536/digital-transformation/top-5-transformative-fintech-spaces-to-watch-in-2023/

"So as we look ahead to 2023, what areas of fintech are likely to make the biggest impact in driving change and innovation for the global economy?"

#apiNews #transformation

UK competition authority to use ‘full powers’ to challenge harmful online choice architecture

https://www.pinsentmasons.com/out-law/news/uk-competition-authority-use-full-powers-challenge-harmful-online-choice-architecture

"In a discussion paper ' How digital design can harm competition and consumers', the authority said the way websites, apps and devices were designed – known as ‘online choice architecture’ (OCA) – had a potentially harmful impact on consumers and markets."

#apiNews #choiceArch

Dennis Ritchie Thesis

https://dmrthesis.net/

"David Brock published an article in June 2020 that told the story of Dennis Ritchie’s Harvard doctoral thesis. Dennis never submitted it. Something happened, and then all mention of it just disappeared for 54 years until 2012, a year after Dennis died. And, as Brock reports, the concepts Dennis described in his dissertation represented breakthrough thinking in computer theory and were historically important."

#apiNews #history

Roald Amundsen Had to Make Do With Being First to South Pole

https://www.adventure-journal.com/2022/12/roald-amundsen-was-first-to-the-south-pole-but-it-was-a-consolation-prize/

"If Amundsen couldn’t be first to the North Pole, he would be first to the south."

#apiNews #people

Designing out of difficult times

https://www.mckinsey.com/capabilities/mckinsey-design/our-insights/designing-out-of-difficult-times

"Design matters—and not just in good times. CEOs who embrace design can enhance strategy and better navigate this age of volatility."

#apiNews #apiDesign

When women stopped coding

https://www.npr.org/2022/12/07/1141358586/women-coders-programming-computer-science

"[W]hat was going on in 1984 that made so many women give up on computer science? We unravel a modern mystery in the U.S. labor force."

#apiNews #womenInTech

Exploring Composite APIs

https://theprogrammersrant.medium.com/exploring-composite-apis-f51270fd84a6

"Use this architecture when sequential calls to various services for data fetching are needed."

#apiNews #apiDesign

A Creator of ActivityPub on What’s Next for the Fediverse

https://thenewstack.io/the-creator-of-activitypub-on-whats-next-for-the-fediverse/

"Evan Prodromou talks about ActivityPub's creation, his complicated feelings about Mastodon, and opportunities for developers in the fediverse."

#apiNews #fediverse #mastodon