If you don’t have cloud APIs when connecting to SAAS it is not gonna work – Luis Weir / Oracle Open World 2016.

This quote is part of my tech quote explained series from Java One / Open World 2016.

Luis Weir’s Quote from Open World 2016:

“If you don’t have cloud APIs when connecting to SAAS it is not gonna work. Simple as that”.”

Luis Augusto Weir, Principal Cap Gemini UK. @Luisw19

Explanation:

The following explanation is mine, not Luis’:

The number of APIs has grown exponentially over the last years. When a public API was almost exotic, strange and seemingly weird a couple years ago it has become the norm today. Do you still remember when you searched for a working implementation of a web service that you could access with a public WSDL just a while ago?

Nowadays there is a wide array of public APIs available. APIs give you access to Twitter, to Amazon Web Services, to your business partners, your Tesla or BMW car, to your home automation system and so on. No SaaS would make any sense without it.

The world has dramatically changed. Everything comes with an API and will continue to do so. This is why API Management becomes increasingly important and popular to manage such APIs. To understand more about this, including the evolution from REST and API Gateways to APIs everywhere, check out Luis API Management in 2016 presentation.

 

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Don’t miss the first quote of this series regarding app servers vs. monoliths.

Technology Quotes Series: Java One and Oracle Open World 2016

Yesterday I touched down in Frankfurt and got off the A380 after this year’s Oracle Open World conference. Regarding the event I had quite some expectations and to make it short most of them were fulfilled.

This year the whole event seemed even bigger to me and I spent considerable amount of time commuting from Java One to Oracle Open World and vice versa. There were just too many exciting sessions I attended to list them all here.

Some Background

There is dramatic change in technology happening right now and for those not able to travel to OOW, Java One or of course other conferences it is sometimes hard to follow.

Earlier this year, I designed a sticker. Surprisingly I received a lot questions about it. The kind of questions reminded me that some thoughts that keep me busy to a large percentage of my professional time not related to your daily business. Therefore often new trends, new tech and even new buzzwords are hard to understand.

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The New Technology Quotes Series

Thinking about this inspired me for my new Open World and Java One 2016 quotes series. Instead of repeating the vendor announcements that you can read in other blogs, I decided to dig a little deeper on the presenters’ best quotes.

Why Quotes?

In a series of postings I will quickly explain a quote each. So why quotes? I will talk about quotes, because they capture the essential, they are inspiring, amusing, challenging or simply surprising. They are related to somebody, not just a vendor slogan. It’s tech with emotion. Somebody said it who is passionate of about this tech bit, somebody who cares.

So will be about something that got stuck in my brain. As usual, I will avoid empty marketing phrases and instead focus on honest tech bits.

Every quote will be provided as best effort. Feel free to drop me an email if something is wrong about it.

… so stay tuned!