CLOUDY MUSINGS

Ok - I'm here to loudly proclaim that my entire "APIs Aren't Just for Devs" series is drawing to a close. I'm hopeful you've found these...

If you're just joining me at this post, I now have 9 previous blogs that cover APIs in hopes of demystifying developer technology a bit....

"To be or not to be" is one of the most famous lines from William Shakespeare's play "Hamlet." It's spoken by the title character, Prince...

As I keep thinking through the vast amount of content here, it makes sense to talk about SOAP APIs vs. REST APIs. What does this mean for...

Ok here I am on my 7th post, trying to help you make sense of APIs. A lot of us managed to become a whole lot more technical and develop...

Ok so...my demystifying APIs for traditional infrastructure personnel blog series is snowballing into more posts. Gah! Hopefully you're...

I know in my last post; I mentioned I would take you through real life examples of using public APIs using Postman. It dawned upon me as...

This is my 50th blog post! I keep saying I need to blog more and am going to make a conscious effort to continue down this path! Happy 50...

As the old saying goes, the devil is in the details! Before diving into the deep, if you're landing on this specific blog, note there are...

I promise this won't be an "elevator pitch" or a "sales pitch" about why REST APIs are great, as you probably know they're great because...

I think we can all agree that our technical world has changed. Traditional system administrators and engineers used to "rack 'n' stack"...

I had a colleague at Microsoft (who's not in identity) mention that it's confusing when someone looks in the Entra portal or Azure Active...

As you build more with code in Azure, knowing the API versions to lean on is helpful. If you use ARM Snippets in Visual Studio Code or...