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Nordic APIs is the company blog at nordicapis.com, writing about programming and web. Since 2013, 49 different Hacker News readers have linked it 121 times, most often “Lego’s API Strategy: Resourcing Developers and Building a Business Case”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-29, and you can follow it by feed.
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Most-linked posts?
- /the-bezos-api-mandate-amazons-manifesto-for-externalization/8 people · 8 mentions · first linked 2021-08-27
- Lego’s API Strategy: Resourcing Developers and Building a Business Case3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2014-07-29
- When to Use What: REST, GraphQL, Webhooks, and GRPC2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-08-23
- Building a Bot Using the Slack API2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-09-22
- 7 Mistakes to Avoid When Marketing Your API2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-09-09
- 5 reasons why developers aren't using your API2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-10-03
- Twitter's 10 Year Struggle with Developer Relations2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-03-23
- How to Control User Identity Within Microservices2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-03-07
What Hacker News says?
Amazon has been at the forefront of micro services at scale since 2002. https://nordicapis.com/the-bezos-api-mandate-amazons-manifes...
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on “AWS CEO says using AI to replace junior staff is 'Dumbest thing I've ever heard'”Submitted How to Monetize Your API as a story · 11 points
HN discussionPossibly stems from one of the tenets of the apocryphal Bezos decree that started AWS[1] > All service interfaces, without exception, must be designed from the ground up to be externalizable. That is to say, the team must plan and design to be able to expose the interface to developers in the outside world. No exceptions. 1: https://nordicapis.com/the-bezos-api-mandate-amazons-manifes...
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on “Amazon packages pile up after AWS outage spawns delivery havoc”Submitted LEGO’s API Strategy: Resourcing Developers and Building a Business Case as a story · 10 points
HN discussion> Microservices don't make a lot of sense to me unless you can print money or have a public infra offering. It points to an engineering org that doesn't know what they are doing A little company I’m sure you have heard of may disagree. This was way before AWS was thing and was an edict for Amazon Retail https://nordicapis.com/the-bezos-api-mandate-amazons-manifes... Your information about Twitters current architectu…
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on “Staff Engineer Archetypes (2020)”Submitted 12 Killer API Resources Every Smart Developer Should Know as a story · 9 points
HN discussionI was thinking the same. I’ve often seen GraphQL contrasted with just REST, and likewise the OP talks about gRPC-Web vs just REST. I performed a web search and found some articles comparing the three together, the first among which [1] I will proceed to summarize. This article gives an overview of how GraphQL, REST and gRPC work and then provides some opinions on which situations each of them are most suitable in, a…
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on “gRPC-Web is going GA”Submitted Writing Microservices in Go – Nordic APIs | as a story · 8 points
HN discussionAuthors point about trustless commitments, ignoring the semantic arguments posed in the comments, is important. Not mentioned but I would argue as equally or of greater importance is interoperability. If you lose trust in the commitment you've made, you can move your capital/identity/etc. To the new thing relatively seamlessly. This is the DeFi experience already built that's so amazing to interact with relative to…
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on “Is Web3 anything?”Submitted 12 killer resources for api practitioners as a story · 8 points
HN discussionPedantically they are similar but not the same. https://nordicapis.com/how-to-smartly-sunset-and-deprecate-a...
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on “Chan Zuckerberg Initiative sunsetting science research platform meta.org”Submitted Building a REST API in Java and Scala Using Play Framework – Part 1 as a story · 7 points
HN discussionFrom my reading it is less about being "against" division of labor than it is about being against "premature" division of labor. Amazon's API Mandate[0] was arguably incredibly successful, and created the necessary conditions for AWS to emerge. [0]: https://nordicapis.com/the-bezos-api-mandate-amazons-manifes...
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on “Ten years against division of labor in software”Submitted What exactly is an API platform? A competitive edge that's what as a story · 7 points
HN discussionTwitter sets a dangerous precedent on API policy although this hasn't been their first time doing so ( https://nordicapis.com/twitter-10-year-struggle-with-develop... ) With feature iteration at Reddit accelerating since 2019, they may opt to do the same eventually should a desperate squeeze of user metrics/ad revenue becomes necessary down the road. Public APIs helped Reddit rapidly grow its userbase on a lean crew…
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on “Tweetbot. April 2011 – January 2023”Submitted Building a REST API in Java and Scala Using Play Framework – Part 2 as a story · 5 points
HN discussionAny article like this needs a link to the Amazon API Mandate: https://nordicapis.com/the-bezos-api-mandate-amazons-manifes...
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on “Better Coordination, or Better Software?”Submitted Designing APIs for Machines as a story · 5 points
HN discussionYou may find some of these helpful: • Web API Design Crafting Interfaces that Developers Love - eBook [APIGEE] • How to design an API function that creates something [SHAREDOM] [SHAREDOM-HN] • Microservices and the First Law of Distributed Objects [FOWLER] [FOWLER-HN] • Lego’s API Strategy: Resourcing Developers and Building a Business Case [LEGO] • A review of all most common API editors — Medium [ORLIESAURUS] [ORL…
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on “Ask HN: What makes an API good?”Submitted 10 Continuous Integration Tools to Spur API Development as a story · 4 points
HN discussionI know what makes it bad: http://nordicapis.com/5-reasons-why-developers-are-not-using...
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on “Ask HN: What makes an API good?”Submitted How to Provide APIs That Expose an Existing Information System as a story · 4 points
HN discussionIf it's stupid and it works then it's not stupid. Sometimes executives have to use blunt instruments to turn around the culture of a hidebound large organization. When Jeff Bezos sent his 2002 API mandate it might have seemed stupid at the time and yet it worked. https://nordicapis.com/the-bezos-api-mandate-amazons-manifes...
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on “Amazon employees are "tokenmaxxing" due to pressure to use AI tools”Submitted 3 Ways APIs Create Value and 5 Acquisitions That Prove It as a story · 4 points
HN discussionYes! Especially with the ability for wasm code to call host-provided import functions, the module can do lots of really interesting things. Here’s an example that might be interesting: https://nordicapis.com/beyond-the-http-api-webassembly-and-t... (skip down to the part about Stripe and how a wasm integration pattern can power much more sophisticated bi-directional interactions).
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on “XTP: Make Squishy Software”Submitted 5 ways APIs will increase your revenue as a story · 4 points
HN discussionThat's a top-down organizational change mandating certain capabilities for all Amazon software. Unlike these AI mandates, it's not dictating the exact tools developers use to write that software, but rather what the software itself should do. For reference, here's the API mandate [0]: 1. All teams will henceforth expose their data and functionality through service interfaces. 2. Teams must communicate with each othe…
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on “AI-First Company Memos”Submitted Lessons learned from Apple's API strategy as a story · 4 points
HN discussionThere are lots of apps that connect to established third parties that Amazon is likely not to build, e.g., home automation with SmartThings, music with Pandora. And also several silly but fun things that they may not wish to maintain, e.g., jeopardy game or the fart app. But yeah, I don't blame you for being cautious of their intentions. Developers have been burned in the past on these big platforms (e.g., Twitter […
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on “The Echo is ready for a killer app – 5 ways Amazon can help developers build it”Submitted API Platform Defined: When an API Provider becomes a Platform as a story · 4 points
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