Beyond Source Code

Beyond Source Code

Just as DevOps transformed operations, just as IoT is transforming communications, Microservices will transform programming. And the key to automating powerful blocks of programming is declarative, model-based rapid application development tooling.

DevOps showed us how to increase speed, improve reliability, and reduce cost while still delivering quality. We learned how to identify key operations, automate them, and turn these automations into powerful building blocks for managing infrastructure and deploying applications. This new operations model will be essential in supporting the expected tens of billions of new devices that will make up the Internet of Things — sensors, relays, and hardware agents that will monitor and enable the next phase of our connected world. And RAD tooling will be the key to programming this new connected world.

Director of API Architecture, API Academy, CA Technologies

An internationally known author and lecturer, Mike Amundsen travels throughout the world consulting and speaking on a wide range of topics including distributed network architecture, Web application development, and other subjects.

In his role of Director of Architecture for the API Academy, Amundsen heads up the API Architecture and Design Practice in North America. He is responsible for working with companies to provide insight on how best to capitalize on the myriad opportunities APIs present to both consumers and the enterprise.

Amundsen has authored numerous books and papers on programming over the last 15 years. His most recent book is a collaboration with Leonard Richardson titled "RESTful Web APIs" published in 2013. His 2011 book, “Building Hypermedia APIs with HTML5 and Node”, is an oft-cited reference on building adaptable Web applications.