Amid the looming sustainability challenges of our time is how the world will feed 2.5 billion more people in a few decades — even as rising sea levels and warmer temperatures take away some arable land. One answer is bringing Big Data to the rescue.
Those of us who cover the world of IT never tire of referring to what has become known as the “Yegge Rant,” a revealing inside look at how Jeff Bezos, CEO of Amazon, played the role of a forcing function. The Yegge Rant includes a leaked communication from Bezos, who demanded that everyone at Amazon implement APIs (Application Programming Interfaces, for the unwashed). APIs started as an obscure way of allowing programmers to access capabilities from other applications. But as the Internet became pervasive, APIs have become a tool for transforming a business and creating powerful new patterns of collaboration and innovation.
Why is it that both short-term and long-term trading strategies can work in the world of investing? How can it be that some people make money looking at short-term movements and others make a bundle taking the long view? Shouldn’t everybody be taking the same approach?
Want developers to use your APIs? Then these APIs should be easy to deal with, akin to Chipotle’s simplified restaurant menu.
There are expected to be over 40 billion active wireless devices by 2020, opening up new opportunities for business. However, this rapid growth also opens up new vulnerabilities leading to operational disruption, intellectual property loss, brand reputation and financial fraud.
Apigee, a service that specializes in managing APIs for developers and enterprises, launched anew security product today that aims to protect APIs from malicious bots. The new Apigee Sense service uses predictive analytics to identify malicious bots to prevent them from accessing its customers’ applications.