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Socio-Technical Architecture as a Competitive Advantage

In today’s business world, technological progress is not just about increasing efficiency—it also unlocks entirely new business opportunities that would be unthinkable without these technologies. As a result, leveraging new technologies effectively has become a key competitive advantage. However, IT decision-makers are increasingly realizing that technology alone is not enough. Instead, companies must understand themselves as socio-technical systems, where technical systems and human interactions are deeply interconnected. This article explores why socio-technical architectures matter for IT decision-makers and how they can create a competitive edge for organizations.

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

One of the major trends in recent years has been Platform Engineering, as many organizations strive for more efficient and fasterdevelopment practices. The term has gained traction since 2018, particularly following an influential article by Evan Bottcher. Looking at the origins of this concept provides valuable insights into the relevance of Platform Engineering today and its potential future developments.

Podcast

Vielschichtigkeit von Plattformen

Von Infrastruktur bis Business – eine Einordnung

Sven Johann
Erik Wilde
Blog Post

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

Podcast

Data Contracts

API Spezifikationen, aber für Datensätze

Sven Johann
Dr. Simon Harrer
Blog Post

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?

Stefan Tilkov
Lucas Dohmen
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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.

Podcast

REST und HTTP

Die dritte Auflage ist endlich da!

Stefan Tilkov
Martin Eigenbrodt
Oliver Wolf
Silvia Schreier
Blog Post

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.

News

Neues iSAQB®-Modul: Application Programming Interfaces
Case Study

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

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Case Study

VeDaH – The internationally usable automotive database for mobile.de

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