Netflix has decided to shut down public API support for third-party developers. An interesting decision, and in my opinion a bad one.

Launched six years ago, the Netflix API provided developers a way to access content from their streaming and DVD catalog. That helped the company grow and gave developers a way to build new experiences around Netflix content (for example Flixster).

Last year the company said it would stop issuing new API keys to developers and last Friday they announced that their API will stop working on November 14th for most developers,

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I came across this article recently that highlights where connectivity could go, even beyond the 50 billion connected things expected to be on the planet by 2020.

The author described something called Smart Dust. Tiny microscopic sensors floating through our cities, tracking and collecting all kinds of data.

“He and his team use Dust, portable packets of sensors that float in the air throughout the entire city and track movement,

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It’s been a long time coming, but we’re glad it’s here. Oracle just announced the arrival of Java 8 – a long-anticipated update which includes the addition of lambda expressions and support for functional programming. Here’s a look at some of the new features and why they are important to engineering at MuleSoft.

Functional Support

Lambda expressions bring functional programming to the Java language.

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Skip the hampers and gift cards and give the developers on your team something useful this holiday season to transform their hard-earned skills into something creative.

Raspberry Pi

Way better than Fruitcake, Raspberry Pi is a credit-card-sized single-board computer running Linux that can be used for all kinds of great ideas from running a web server in your pocket to building home automation systems.

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199 out of 200 applicants for every programming job can’t write code.

“A surprisingly large fraction of applicants, even those with masters’ degrees and PhDs in computer science, fail during interviews when asked to carry out basic programming tasks. “

When I first heard this years ago I initially thought it had to be inaccurate. I had seen a large number of developers flunk interview coding tests and write really bad code,

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Your API can be a key to your company’s success as it has been for companies like Twitter, Twilio and Box. Get it wrong and you lose out on a big opportunity.

While at Google, Joshua Block presented in 2006 How to Design a Good API and Why it Matters in the context of one of the most widely used APIs ever created – the Java Core APIs – which may have been used by up to 10 million developers.

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There is a lot of talk about the lean startup and whether it works or not. Some proclaim it is critical to the success of any startup and that it is even the DNA of any modern startup. Others claim that it’s unproven, unscientific and gets your product to market in a haphazard way that is ungrounded in quality.

But the lean startup model, when you boil it down,

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MuleSoft has been named one of the “Best Places to Work” by the SF Business Times. The Times’ rankings are based on anonymous, voluntary surveys which rank their employer in areas such as teamwork, retention, co-workers, manager effectiveness, trust in senior leadership, benefits and overall job satisfaction.

So what is it about MuleSoft that makes it such a great place to innovate and work? I joined MuleSoft about 6 months ago as VP of Engineering,

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