Is REST alive and well? Or is it time to move on?

Kin Lane (aka the “API Evangelist”) joins this episode of Gartner’s Steering Engineering Podcast to explore these topics and answer the question: What does “good” actually mean when it comes to APIs?

About the Guest

Kin Lane describes himself as an “API Evangelist,” with a long history of building and consulting on APIs and API strategy.

In this episode of the Steering Engineering Podcast, Brent Stewart and Danny Brian dive into the business case for developer experience with expert Abi Noda. They discuss how a high-quality developer experience leads to increased productivity, software quality, and business impact, despite the fact that many organizations underinvest in it. Using insights from Gartner’s Developer Experience Assessment Survey, they explore why developer satisfaction remains low and what companies can do to improve. They also examine the role of AI-augmented software engineering tools and whether an “AI divide” is emerging. Tune in to hear whether developer experience is truly worth the investment — and what it takes to get it right.

About the Guest

Abi Noda is a programmer, researcher, and entrepreneur focused on helping organizations improve developer productivity. Abi is the CEO and Co-Founder of DX, a platform for measuring and improving developer experience. In addition to running DX, Abi runs the Engineering Enablement podcast and newsletter, covering the latest research and perspectives on developer productivity. Before DX, he held CTO roles at several companies and was the founder and CEO of Pull Panda, which was acquired by GitHub in 2019.

In this episode of the Steering Engineering Podcast, host Danny Brian and co-host Brent Stewart are joined by Gartner Distinguished VP Analyst, Gary Olliffe, to answer the question, “Are microservices dead?” Listen as Danny, Brent and Gary explore this topic by examining microservices architecture from a more technical perspective and by discussing its current and future outlook.

About the Guest

Gary Olliffe is a distinguished VP analyst in the software engineering practice supporting Gartner for Technical Professionals (GTP). Gary’s research covers a range of software architecture topics, including application architecture, platform engineering, applications of AI in software delivery, microservice and event-driven architectures.