Nanoglyph 050 — API Spring

A short one today, mainly just to share a link. I wrote my first longer-form essay in a while: The Second Wave of the API-first Economy . When I first got to Silicon Valley, we had a lot of fun with APIs. During my first year at Heroku I spent considerable time breaking an API out of our Rails web app (in retrospect, maybe not a strongly defensible use of effort), then revamping our API with a…