Back in February, Peter Reinhardt published his fairly widely circulated blog post Replacing Middle Management with APIs. (If you haven’t read it already, do so now.)
Replacing Middle Management with APIs by Peter Reinhardt
There’s a trend in Silicon Valley startups to create a software layer in industries that were traditionally pure human services. Uber and Lyft have created software layers in the taxi industry, 99designs Tasks in the visual design industry, Homejoy in the cleaning industry, and so on. These new software services employ armies of human workers, optimizing their output, productivity and quality while driving price down.
Optimised API Management for the modern business
Join us as we unveil the path to optimised API management, tailored for modern enterprises.
Why Executive Interest In APIs Is Booming
A decade ago, API awareness was limited, with evangelists educating a mostly unaware C-suite. Today, APIs are integral to business, widely embraced by executives and developers alike, reflecting a significant shift in digital transformation strategies.
Below the API
Jobs increasingly fall into one of two categories: Either you tell computers what to do for a living or they tell you what to do.
These 20 Awesome API Clients Will Change How You Work with APIs
Postman has become a staple in API development, but it’s far from the only option. As the API...
Almost everyone is doing the API economy wrong | TechCrunch
It’s time to hold companies to a higher standard when it comes to APIs. As software "eats the world," it seems like it’s not enough for a business to just serve its customers and hopefully make a profit, they also have to be “platforms” -- and, as any developer would respond, these days you just can’t be a platform without an API.
Introducing Faktory
Yesterday I explained how a good background job framework is critical to scaling business applications. Today, meet Faktory. I’ve spent the last six months building Faktory, a new background job system which aims to bring the best practices developed over the last five years in Sidekiq to every programming language. The Basics Faktory is a server daemon which provides a simple API to produce and consume background jobs. Here’s the chatter to create and execute a background job:
A primer on the reality of working with APIs as a new developer
A rundown of some of the issues and realities you'll find moving from education to real-world applications involving APIs.
Expanding Managed Agents in Gemini API: background tasks, remote MCP and more
We’re announcing new capabilities in Managed Agents in Gemini API so developers can build reliable, production-ready agents.
Introduction
This website describes a way to manage APIs that is inexpensive, high-performing, and surprisingly easy to use. It’s also great for APIs that are built with gRPC and Protocol Buffers. It’s the only API management system that starts with these powerful approaches, and if you are building APIs with them, you’ll find it especially familiar. It emerged from internal API management practices at Google, and as you might hope, it works great on Google Cloud, but it’s not limited to that. We’ll show you how it can be used with or without Kubernetes on any cloud platform and on systems that you run yourself.
BullMQ - Background Jobs and Message Queue for Node.js, Python, Elixir & more
The open source message queue for Redis, trusted by thousands of companies processing billions of jobs every day. Available for Node.js, Bun, Python, Elixir, and PHP.
API Integration
Learn about pre-built automation tools and integrations to help your business stay ahead of the curve and deliver IT-as-a service.
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Best Skills That Actually Get You Hired (2026)Backend – APIs (REST + GraphQL), Auth (JWT/OAuth, RBAC/ABAC), DB Design (SQL + NoSQL), Caching (Redis/CDN), Rate Limiting, Queues (Kafka/RabbitMQ), Event-driven architecture, Idempotency, API versioning, Observability…— gxjo (@gxjo_dev) April 9, 2026
Google Cabs And Uber Bots Will Challenge Jobs 'Below The API'
Working "below the API" is a dead end. Uber drivers, Amazon Mechanical Turk workers, 99design contestants, TaskRabbit taskers and HomeJoy cleaners are all targets for further automation.
