Diego Blanco is Head of PaaS & Open APIs Platform CTO at BBVA Compass. We talk to him and he recalls the steps needed to create an API catalog from his experience at BBVA. At the same time Blanco reviews the methodology of work of his team, based in the United States.
APIs are not only revolutionizing the business models of companies, but also the way developers work. This technology streamlines and simplifies their work and introduces flexibility and new perspectives.
Groovy is a pretty interesting programming language for Java developers, as it has become a perfect complement for this general purpose syntax. As a matter of fact, Groovy introduces interesting features to get where Java cannot.
BBVA API_Market participates in the Amazon Web Services Summit in Madrid (AWS Summit) today, May 17, to detail the implementation of Amazon AWS's ECS (Elastic Container Service), compatible with Docker technology, in API_Market Products and Microservices and in ECS: Managed Service.
Four of the most widely used tools for creating simple conversational chatbots are API.ai, Motion.ai, Smooch.io and Gupshup.io, whilst Chatfuel is an excellent alternative. The idea is to be able to launch bots on messaging platforms and social networks, such as Facebook Messenger, Telegram, Slack and WeChat, in three or four steps.
Current APIs are set to naturally evolve toward conversation APIs, interfaces that perform searches and provide responses to queries using natural language via conversational user interfaces. Innovation depends on early adoption of APIs as a means of launching products, and the integration of an open developer community within work processes.
Between iPhones and iPads there are almost 1 billion devices with iOS around the world. This operating system grows in popularity every year, and being able to develop for it is, and will continue to be, of vital importance to companies over the next years.
Developing is a crucial phase in the creation of a product, but having a marketing plan and skillfully carrying it out is the key to a successful application. You also need to know your users and reduce development faults to a minimum. Behind each app lies a vast work involving the conceptualization, design, development and testing of the software.
Google's two latest projects refer to the websites of the future and are mostly focused on content loading speed and user experience. These two issues have become an obsession for Google, not only in terms of the media but also as referents to the whole World Wide Web. If you want to know more about it, you can download this ebook.
