Developer Programs and APIs in the News – Volume 1, Number 3

In today’s interconnected world, companies in all industries need to publish APIs and cultivate a developer community to access and use them. To be competitive today, attracting and supporting developers is essential. The key to cultivating a vibrant developer community that uses your APIs and supports your platform is a good developer relations program. “Developer Programs and APIs in the News” is a series of news items from developer programs around the world.

Developer Programs and APIs in the News

IBM – October 7, 2016 – Cognitive Skills: The next mastery challenge for developers by Willie Tejada. “Today, developers are driving critical decisions in the API economy, choosing the technology businesses are using to innovate and drive digital disruption. Their embrace of cognitive computing is growing rapidly.”

Facebook – October 6, 2016 – The Oculus Connect 3 Conference Opening Keynote replay is on Facebook. “Virtual reality is the perfect platform to put people first, because of presence. You feel like you’re really there,” said Mark Zuckerberg. “The point is,” he added. “we have this space and we can do anything with it.” The 8 biggest stories from Oculus Connect 3 – The Verge.

Evans Data – October 5, 2016 – Mobile Developer Ranks Reach 12M, to Top 14M by 2020 – eWeek. “Mobile development has really become ubiquitous” said Janel Garvin, CEO of Evans Data, in a statement. “Mobile devices are everywhere, but while most modern applications support mobile devices, not all developers are working on the client target side. Some are server or back-end oriented or are concentrating more on the application logic or more and more on newer machine learning implementations, so watching the number of mobile developers move from just under two million 10 years ago to 12 million today just provides a reflection of the use of mobile devices today.”

Salesforce – October 5, 2016 – Our Path Together: A Recap of Marc Benioff’s Dreamforce ’16 Keynote. “Our Path Together brings you up to speed with everything new and important that Marc shared at DreamforceMarc including Salesforce Einstein™ and why we’re bringing the power of AI to CRM, the latest on Lightning and the Salesforce1 Mobile App, Productivity supercharged with Quip, Commerce Cloud and the path to unified commerce, How to connect every thing with IoT Cloud, Customer success stories” and more.

Box – October 4, 2016 – Now Accepting Applications for the Box Platform Incubator Program. “The Box Platform Incubator Program is a free 6-month program to help qualified companies build, launch, and scale app businesses that leverage Box Platform and Amazon Web Services. Applications are now open and you can submit your company’s application”

Open API Initiative (OAI) – October 3, 2016 – Structural Improvements: explaining the OpenAPI 3.0 spec. “With the version 3.0 of the OpenAPI Specification nearing a beta candidate, this series of posts is meant to provide insight into what is changing and how.”

Nutritionix – September 30, 2016 – Nutritionix API v2.0 Officially Launches. “Our v2.0 API continues our mission of making it as easy as possible for people to understand and track what they eat.”

GitHub, GitLab, Atlassian – September 28, 2016 – Enterprise repo wars: GitHub vs. GitLab vs. Bitbucket – InfoWorld. “GitLab and Atlassian have GitHub in the cross-hairs among organizations seeking enterprise-grade features for their privately hosted repos”.

Intel – September 15, 2016 – The Art of User Engagement. “In this guest article, Intel Innovator, Peter O’Hanlon, explains the art of user engagement, from how to create it to how to measure it.”

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