My Love/Hate Relationship with APIs | @DevOpsSummit #API #DevOps #Microservices

Ten years ago I was a programmer working at an insurance company. The hard IT work of an insurance company is claims processing - taking in new members, getting claims, figuring out how they should be payed, and paying them electronically. That meant a big database. We wrote a lot of SQL, the programming language for databases. When our claims processing vendor came in telling us about Service Oriented Architecture, we yawned. Instead of a hand-rolled SELECT statement, something like this: SELECT member_id FROM members where first_name="John" AND last_name="Smith" AND birthdate = "1/1/1990″;

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