Phill Barber's Blog

Green IO Opening Remarks - Gaël Duez Founder - Green IO Gaël started the Green IO conference (this was a track within the APIDays conference) with a very welcoming and friendly tone that felt quite different to other conferences. He encouraged us to greet our neighbour and say hello which went really well.  The room was completely full with many people standing at the back. I can imagine that next year this conference will be moved into a bigger room.  Gaël Duez Kicks off Green IO Keynote: Consensus As A Climate Lever Room: Commercial 3 Chris Adams Executive Director - Green Web Foundation Chris explained to us "just how messy carbon calculation can be". My main takeaway from Chris's talk was exploring the concept of consensus and how having too strict a definition can be counter-productive. Instead people now realise that to get things done we need to instead aim for "rough consensus" and came up with a great quote... "We reject: kings, presidents, and vot...

 I was fortunate enough to attend API Days London today. Here are my thoughts from the various talks. Welcome Breakfast Panel Discussion: The API State of the Market Report 2024 Edition The room was almost completely full to host a panel discussion with: Mehdi Medjaoui Founder and Chairman of Apidays Conferences, Author of Continuous API Management - Apidays Mark Boyd Director - Platformable. Maurizio Garzelli - Sr Consultant, Solutions Architecture - Boomi They showed a big image with 2500 icons of different vendor supplying different solutions. They said that eight years ago this was just aroud 150. The point was made that, although this looks complicated, all of these different vendors have the goal of simplifing things for the developers of APIs. Mark made the point that multiple forces are driving the explosion of API tech providers. Firtly, social media, secondly sharing of data from devices being connected. The point was also discussed regardg the "bundling / unbundling...