“API is solved. We bought a platform.”
This is the great API illusion. Platforms are not strategy. APIs remain the foundation for speed, ecosystems and AI.
New essay: architecturalbytes.substack.com/p/api-is-sol...
Are APIs solved or just shelved?

You don’t need more APIs — you need the right ones to solve real business problems.
My colleague Miri and I finally wrote down our take on API Thinking after years of fieldwork.
🔗 www.codecentric.de/en/knowledge...

JavaLand 2025 was a blast! 🚀 Miriam & I talked OpenAPI & RESTful APIs. Shout-out to @jaapcoomans.nl for a great talk on contract-first API testing with Quarkus – awesome demo of real dev enablement! 💥