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Kopplung

Zwischen Abhängigkeit und Autonomie

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Plattformen für AI: Daten und APIs als digitales Fundament

Eine aktiv gemanagte Plattform von Daten und Diensten ist die Grundlage für agentenfähige Systeme. Nur wer Daten und Dienste gemeinsam zugänglich macht, schafft die nötige Basis für AI. Agenten brauchen klar beschriebene Datendienste – und eine Plattform, die diese zur Verfügung stellt.

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Socio-Technical Architecture as a Competitive Advantage

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A Brief History of HTTP

HTTP has continuously evolved since the founding of the Internet in 1989. The first RFC document published by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) appeared in 1996. Let’s trace the history of HTTP over the years up to June 2022, when a new series of RFC documents was published standardizing HTTP/1.1, HTTP/2, and HTTP/3.

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Beyond the hype: An engineer’s journey into ReBAC and AI with the Model Context Protocol

In this article, I share my experiences on my journey into the AI world. During this journey, we’ll build our own Model Context Protocol (MCP) Server using C Sharp, learn about access management with relationship based access control (ReBAC) on the way, and in the end I’ll provide my thoughts on the current state of AI and MCP, focusing on security and UX.

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Platforms, Teams, and APIs: How Do They Fit Together?

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Common Approaches in the Field of Socio-Technical Architectures

In the age of digitalization and modernization, companies face the challenge of not only keeping up with technological advancements but also optimizing their organizational structures. Socio-technical architectures play a crucial role in this process by focusing on the flow of work, team collaboration, and the seamless integration of technical and social systems. This article explores two key approaches—Team Topologies and Domain-Driven Design (DDD)—and demonstrates how they can help organizations take the first steps toward consciously designing their socio-technical architecture.

Podcast

Vielschichtigkeit von Plattformen

Von Infrastruktur bis Business – eine Einordnung

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Eine kurze Geschichte von HTTP

Wie sich HTTP über die Jahre entwickelt hat: Von HTTP/1.0 zu HTTP/3.0

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Bessere APIs, aber wie?

API Linting verbessert die Qualität einzelner APIs und hilft, Design-Standards in Organisationen zu etablieren und zu unterstützen. Spectral als das populärste Linting Tool hat eingebaut Regeln und unterstützt selbstgeschriebene Regeln. Vor allem in grösseren Organisationen hilft API Linting, Hilfestellung und Automatisierung beim API-Design zu unterstützen.

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APIs als strategische digitale Bausteine

Organisationen müssen heute balancieren, ihre aktuellen Aufgaben effizient zu erfüllen, aber sie müssen ebenso in der Lage sein, auf neue Anforderungen schnell und flexibel reagieren zu können. “Unbundling the Enterprise” ist ein neues Buch, das untersucht und beschreibt, wie sich Unternehmen durch systematisches Entflechten mehr Optionen verschaffen können, und somit besser in der Lage sind, auf neue Anforderungen zu reagieren.

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API Drift

Wenn APIs Unbeschriebenes tun

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Data Contracts

API Spezifikationen, aber für Datensätze

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gRPC

One of the main tasks that business sets for IT as an industry is the creation of effective software, according to criteria that clearly meet the needs of this business. On the other side, one of the main prerequisites for achieving the goals that a business sets for itself is the ability to hire specialists who can create a product in the shortest possible time and/or effectively maintain it. Accordingly, to achieve this, the technology stack used, i.e. tools, must be mature enough, and widely used in the market.

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API gut, alles gut

Schnittstellen für unabhängige Systeme

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Rate Limiting with Spring Boot

Let’s implement rate-limiting protection for your Spring Boot server without the need for any additional dependencies beyond those included in the Spring Boot Starter package.

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Compacted State Feeds

Event notification vs. Event-carried State Transfer vs. Delta loads. How to design good event architectures for mutable data?

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Clientseitige Speichertechnologien im Browser

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HTTP Feeds

Asynchronous interfaces don’t always require the use of Apache Kafka or RabbitMQ. They can also be designed without middleware just by means of HTTP APIs.

Podcast

API-Stile

Wie und womit baut man ein gutes API?

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Pragmatic RESTful HAL APIs

Kitchen Tricks and Tips

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Why RESTful communication between microservices can be perfectly fine

Recent debates about REST versus message passing in microservice communication have led to some confusion. What is meant with asynchronous communication in this context and why is REST a perfectly valid choice?

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Praktikumsbericht „Web Discoverable Hypermedia“

Nachfolgend ein Erfahrungsbericht von Valentin Pratz (15), der mit Bravour ein zweiwöchiges Schülerpraktikum bei innoQ absolviert hat.

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REST und HTTP

Die dritte Auflage ist endlich da!

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Declarative HTTP API Testing with gabbi

While HTTP APIs are ubiquitous these days, testing and documenting such APIs remains somewhat awkward: Tests usually consist of procedural code that is specific to the respective language or even framework - which is neither very expressive nor easy to maintain.

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Talk

Your API Is Not Ready for AI (Yet): A Lifecycle-Based Readiness Guide

iSAQB Software Architecture Gathering / 15:00 - 15:45

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Your API Is Not Ready for AI (Yet): A Lifecycle-Based Readiness Guide

Berlin Expert Days (BED-Con 2025)

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Your API Is Not Ready for AI (Yet): A Lifecycle-Based Readiness Guide

API Conference New York

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OpenAPI Summit Welcome and OpenAPI in the Age of AI

API World 2025 / 09:30 - 09:55

News

INNOQ Fragezeit startet am 31. Juli

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Neues iSAQB®-Modul: Application Programming Interfaces

Case Study

Movacar PRO: A mobile app for efficient vehicle logistics using the “Tech4Equity” model

Case Study

VeDaH – The internationally usable automotive database for mobile.de