David McKenna

How fit do you need to be?  How fit does your API need to be? It may not be the case that your API needs...

I was playing around with the CLI to see how I can incorporate it into demos and wanted to share a couple of things...

In this blog post, we will look at how to discover APIs (OAS & WSDL) within your git repos and to publish them in...

I recently stumbled across the above beautiful animation of celestial mechanics by Malin Christersson. On the left-hand side, you see how simple and elegant...

You all remember the photo of the dress which went viral on the internet a couple of years ago. Viewers of the photo disagreed...

When I first started programming professionally in the mid-90s, the book (yes, made from trees) that was on everyone's desk was “Design Patterns” by...

I was in a restaurant recently and the above photograph that was on the wall caught my eye. Four riders on scooters wearing “API”...

The New Year brings with it a multitude of good intentions, with many of us determined to improve our lives one way or another...

With Thanksgiving behind us, the holiday season is now in full effect with lights on houses, jingles on the radio and relentless commercials reminding...

In this article, I will highlight how the glorious monarchical reign of REST (Representational State Transfer) APIs is declining and how the ecosystem is...

"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." – Franklin D. Roosevelt Considering my neighbors are now decking their houses for Halloween to spook the...

I recently watched the courtroom scene from A Few Good Men where Jack Nicholson’s character, Colonel Jessep, takes the stand to determine if a...

If you remember back to your high school days you’ll recall being taught about the earth’s magnetic field. Which to put it in layman's...

Recently, a colleague asked me for examples of “Beautiful APIs.” Immediately I gave a tongue in cheek response that “beauty is in the eye...

Microservices architecture is a software development architectural style, whereby a complex business problem is solved by a suite of small services. These microservices are...

We held a global Hackathon between various Axway R&D centers in the USA, France and Ireland and we branded the event “PDG Invent” (Phoenix,...

“Fyre: The Greatest Party That Never Happened” the Netflix documentary chronicles the grand ambition and ultimate failure of the Fyre Festival. Fyre Festival promised...

Over the holiday period, I watched the classic movie: The Wizard of Oz. In the movie, a tornado rips through Kansas, and Dorothy (Judy...

S is for Sharing in CALMS. One day, my son came home from kindergarten and was waxing lyrically about: “Sharing is caring”. A simple phrase...

While thinking about how to articulate what “Measure” means for DevOps, I kept having flashbacks to a toy that my son had when he...

Often the adoption of DevOps goes hand-in-hand with the application of lean practices. Lean practices are focused on value creation for the end customer...

To err is human! Below is a list of infamous outages, which occurred due human error: AWS S3 Outage Feb 28th 2017: "an authorized S3...

Some might call me an armchair football fan. I know all the teams, facts and figures, I’m good at Fantasy Football, but please don't...

A number of years ago as part of a transformation we were undergoing, I was championing the cultural shift towards a DevOps philosophy. As...

Recently I was working on a pitch to my executive board, and I wanted to include some content that I thought would be perfect...

As a continuation from my previous blog entry of comparing Istio to Ant-Man, I’d like to continue with the superhero theme to provide a...

“It’s a bird. It’s a plane. It’s Super…” No, wait, it's Istio! If you squint, you can just make it out! What is Istio?...

When things break in a microservice architecture, determining the cause is challenging where did it fail and why? There are so many things that...

If you are a fan of Game of Thrones (GoT), this post will make sense to you. I will be equating the roles and...

In this series of blog posts, we explain the valuable role the Microgateway plays in adopting a microservice architecture. For more microgateway information, read the...

If you’ve ever visited the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, then you’ve undoubtedly been totally awestruck at the size and magnitude of the engineering...

As a continuation from my previous blog entry of comparing Istio to Ant-Man, I’d like to continue with the superhero theme to provide a...

“It’s a bird. It’s a plane. It’s Super...” No, wait it’s Istio! If you squint, you can just make it out! What is Istio?...

When things break in a microservice architecture, determining the root cause is challenging- where did it fail and why? There are so many things...

The season finale for Game of Thrones (GoT) seems a long way off. So, in this entry, let’s keep the hype going by equating...

In this series of blog posts, we explain the valuable role the Microgateway plays in adopting a microservice architecture. A single microservice is a simple...