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March 12, 2016 by annegentle

Interface means integrate

Interface means integrate

I attended the Austin Homegrown API meet up at Wright Bros and Brew last week. Titled “Where the Rubber meets the Road,”—heh—there were about 25-30 people there, about half API-oriented and half car-oriented. Honestly, with interfaces and integration as a theme, all attendees were API-oriented. One of the people there simply to network had lunch with […]

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March 2, 2016 by annegentle

Playing with technology

Playing with technology

One of the greatest parts of my job is getting to learn, write, learn write in a never-ending pattern. I got to play with Docker Swarm on our Carina offering at Rackspace and wrote up this blog post. It’s a tutorial for using Carina to create a Jawbone App with node.js. You could see the […]

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January 12, 2015 by annegentle

REST API Analysis: How To Size Endpoints Using Command-Line Tools

REST API Analysis: How To Size Endpoints Using Command-Line Tools

For both OpenStack and Rackspace cloud APIs, we use WADL, Web Application Description Language, to build an API reference listing for all REST API calls. In a previous post, I discussed how the reference pages at http://developer.openstack.org/api-ref.html were made with a WADL source and a Maven plugin, clouddocs-maven-plugin. (Updated to add: in 2023, you would use OpenAPI Specification […]

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I’ve been thinking a lot about developer support at Cisco recently, especially for the way the world works today with multiple cloud providers. This post is a re-publish of my talk from over five years ago, but the techniques and tools for listening and helping others are still true today. At Rackspace, we watched several […]

Cisco DevNet is our developer program for outreach, education, and tools for developers at Cisco. From the beginning, the team has had a vision for how to run a developer program. Customers are first, and the team implements what Cisco customers need for automation, configuration, and deployment of our various offerings. Plus, the DevNet team […]

I had a great talk with Ellis Pratt of Cherryleaf Technical Writing consulting last week. Here are the show notes, full of links to all the topics we covered. Podcasts are great fun to listen to and participate in, if a bit nerve-wracking to think on your feet and make sure you answer questions succinctly […]

At the beginning of this year, I worked hard to summarize my thoughts on API documentation, continuous publishing, and technical accuracy for developer documentation. The result is an article on InfoQ.com, edited by Deepak Nadig, who also was forward-thinking in having me speak to a few teams at Intuit about API documentation coupled with code. Always […]

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