Model Context Protocol (MCP) has, almost overnight, become a mainstay for developer tools and enterprise AI workflows. Anthropic open-sourced MCP in late 2024 and later donated it to the recently established Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF), a Linux Foundation project. As AI agents and large language model (LLM) applications start to put MCP servers into use, ...
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4 Jun
5 May
“REST is dead.” “MCP will be gone within a year”. “Tooling is the new sprawl layer.” These are all takes we’ve read recently on the issues people are facing when it comes to connecting AI to APIs. Kelsey Hightower, for example, recently opened some interesting debate around the future of REST and MCP on Bluesky ...
18 Mar
If your application calls even one third-party API, its reliability ceiling is no longer yours to control. That is the uncomfortable truth behind the uptime numbers API Status Check has been tracking since late 2025 across more than 215 services spanning cloud infrastructure, AI, payments, developer tools, and communications. This is not a ranking exercise. ...
10 Feb
A product manager at a mid-sized SaaS company notices a familiar pattern. The mobile app team is blocked waiting for a backend change, the data team has built its own undocumented endpoints to move faster, and the DevOps team is fielding late-night incidents caused by services calling each other in unexpected ways. Each team is ...
28 Jan
In December 2025, roughly 14,000 Stranger Things fans experienced their worst nightmare. No, Vecna didn’t rise up to pull Hawkins, Indiana, into the Upside Down. Even worse, thousands of fans signed onto Netflix to watch the conclusion of the series they’d dedicated the last decade of their lives to, only to have the world’s largest ...
14 Jan
In the age of AI, there is a worrying trend of simply letting AI "take care of it." You have invested in an agentic system, so when you need something done, why not just let the AI agent make the API request? After all, it is just a machine making a machine request — right? ...
6 Sept 2024
Tinder API Style Guide — Part 1 Authored by: Nishant Mittal Advisory Group: Vijaya Vangapandu , Devin Thomson , Serge Vartanov and Greg Giacovelli API Style Guide Contributors: Nishant Mittal, Xing Wei and Felix Changoo Over the past decade, Tinder has experienced exponential user growth. Today, the app processes over 1 billion Likes and Nopes per day . This rapid…