From the blog
Solving the data doom loop
Ken Stott, Field CTO of API platform Hasura, tells Ryan about the data doom loop: the concept that organizations are spending lots of money on data systems without seeing improvements in data quality or efficiency.
How to harness APIs and AI for intelligent automation
APIs have steadily become the backbone of AI systems, connecting data and tools seamlessly. Discover how they can drive scalable and secure training for AI models and intelligence automation.
A distributed database that can withstand a meteor strike
Can your database handle a billion customers per month?
“In the short term, more chaos”: What’s next for API design
Sagar Batchu, CEO and cofounder of API tooling company Speakeasy, talks with Ryan about the evolving API landscape, AI integration, the role of human technologists in an increasingly automated environment, and what people building APIs right now should keep in mind.
Shifting left without slowing down: Q&A with Moti Gindi of Apiiro
Can an org automate security, change its culture to up their dev velocity, and stave off burnout?
Warm reminder: ask us anything on February 26th on our Youtube channel
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Interesting questions
Could a race of humanoids metabolize something other than oxygen?
Did you know that oxygen is technically a poison?
Why are PDF passwords so easy to break?
Password-protected doesn't necessarily mean encrypted.
How do I know if I'm a bad writer?
Most people are bad writers. Some people are excellent rewriters.
Examples of logographic writing systems evolving into non-logographic ones?
Internet English. Emojis are the new hieroglyphics.
Links from around the web
Visualizing data is an art—we should treat it like one
A model is an approximation of the truth. Making one is both an art and a science!
How your morning coffee is changing the structure of your brain
They can take caffeine from my very awake hands!!
The Sudoku affair
Software design is a deliberate process that requires deliberate effort.
Taking RWD to the extreme
15 whole years (!) after the origins of responsive web design, the browser has come a long way!
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