Episodes
This week on Breaking Changes Roundtable Joyce Lin, Ruby Sattar, Kevin Swiber and Tamina Zaheri discuss ChatGPT: the latest innovation causing a frenzy from Silicon Valley and beyond. Also, we get into the security of online holiday shopping and review the best/worst tech trends of 2022.
Published 12/29/22
This week we discuss the implosion of Elon Musk’s Twitter reign playing out in real time, the security of APIs, and has the collapse of FTX flatlined the world of cryptocurrency? Postmanauts Tamina Zaheri, Kevin Swiber, and Joyce Lin cover these topics in the Breaking Changes Roundtable pilot episode.
Published 12/23/22
In this Breaking Changes, Postman Chief Evangelist Kin Lane is joined by Sri Kandikonda, Principal Product Manager, to talk about the role self-service plays across the API economy and just how important it is for enterprises to treat their APIs as a product in a fast-paced business landscape.
Published 12/21/22
In this Breaking Changes, Postman Chief Evangelist Kin Lane sits down with Jessica Ulyate, Platform Associate Director of Product at HelloFresh, to talk about the growing role that product managers play when it comes to meeting the global needs at HelloFresh, but also how having a platform team is an important milestone in the digital journey of any enterprise.
Published 12/14/22
In this Breaking Changes, Postman Chief Evangelist Kin Lane is joined by Ryan Kirk, Lead Cloud Architect and Team Manager at Formula 1 to discuss the benefits of being cloud-native, and how the Formula 1 team is able to stand up and tear down the technology behind each race, allowing the racing industry to embrace change and keep pace with what their teams, partners, and the fans need.
Published 12/07/22
In this Breaking Changes, Postman Chief Evangelist Kin Lane welcomes James Pozenel, a Solution Architect at Dominos Pizza, to discuss how they have employed very pragmatic approaches to delivering APIs, taking advantage of simple low-cost HTTP APIs to meet the demands of feeding the world pizza!
Published 11/16/22
In this Breaking Changes, Postman Chief Evangelist Kin Lane welcomes Robert Flowers, Senior Product Owner & Enterprise API Oversight at Duke Energy to talk about being a bridge between business and IT, and the importance of data as well as feedback loops when it comes to delivering internal and partner API services in a heavily regulated industry like the energy sector.
Published 11/09/22
In this episode of Breaking Changes, Kin Lane talks with Antwain Daniels, VP and Product Manager at Wells Fargo, about how API product management is bridging the business and IT divide, helping the enterprise navigate compliance while building the next generation of digital experiences necessary to evolve from being a financial company into being a modern technology company.
Published 11/02/22
In this episode of Breaking Changes, Kin Lane is joined by Felicia Persaud, founder of Invest Caribbean and Hard Beat Communications, about how information flows into and out of the Caribbean and the need to continue making business owners and government agencies aware of the role technology is playing, while continuing to empower the next generation of startups and investors about the opportunity that exists in the Caribbean.
Published 10/30/22
In this episode of the Breaking Changes podcast, Kin Lane is joined by Mamta Suri, Former Senior Manager Software Development for Time Tracking at Workday, talking about the importance of diversity and business alignment across API operations, but halfway through our interview Mamta turned the tables and began interviewing Kin Lane about what he has learned about APIs doing the show.
Published 10/26/22
In this episode of Braking Changes, Kin Lane sits down with Ifedamola Adefisoya, CTO and Co-Founder of Medipal Healthcare about digitizing healthcare records in Africa, modernizing healthcare, and using APIs and machine learning to help modernize how patients receive care, helping doctors do more through automation.
Published 10/23/22
In this episode of the Breaking Changes podcast Kin Lane sits down with David Dymko, Principal Software Engineer at Ambassador Labs, exploring his experience in defining and delivering the next-generation cloud infrastructure API that supports a modern Kubernetes-driven enterprise landscape that helps abstract away the complexities and makes developers lives much easier.
Published 10/16/22
In this episode of Breaking Changes, Kin Lane is joined by Douglas Gubert, Tech Lead over at Rocket Chat, to share how they respect data sovereignty by providing a plugin-driven, on-premises solution for air-gapped networks, making privacy and security a top priority when producing and consuming APIs within a company.
Published 10/12/22
In this episode of Breaking Changes, Kin Lane sits down with Juha Stenberg, the CEO of eMabler, to talk about how being API-first is helping to define not only the future of the electric automobile charging industry, but also the wider energy and payment industries, and how relying on APIs will help iteratively define the future of these industries amidst a great deal of volatility and disruption.
Published 10/09/22
In this episode of Breaking Changes, Kin Lane sat down with Rosemary Missier, Director at Samvit Software Solutions. Rosemary shared her pragmatic views of the state of API operations across all of the enterprise operations she has worked on, revealing that most mainstream companies are still API-early, or just becoming API-aware, and have a lot of ground to cover and investment ahead when it comes to their API journey.
Published 10/02/22
In this episode of Breaking Changes, I sit down with Taki Hasegawa of The Trevor Project. I learned about how the organization supports the LGBTQ community through the development of an AI chatbot for their Crisis Contact Simulator. A conversation gave me a much more hopeful view of how artificial intelligence is being applied to improve our world by helping LGBTQ youth through the hardest times.
Published 09/28/22
In this episode of Breaking Changes, Viktor Farcic of Upbound joins Kin to talk about the opsification of the enterprise and how we need to provide Heroku-like guardrails for all of the infrastructures that our teams need access to, helping abstract away the increasing complexity of operations and allow developers to focus on what truly matters to the business.
Published 09/25/22
In this episode of Breaking Changes, Postman Chief Evangelist Kin Lane talks with Arun Narayanaswamy of Amadeus about DevOps and the realities of being cloud native. We explored the balance enterprise organizations are finding across their own data centers and the cloud, optimizing how we modernize our operations by leveraging the symbiotic relationship between APIs and the cloud.
Published 09/21/22
In this episode of Breaking Changes, Postman Chief Evangelist Kin Lane welcomes Ellis Smith to discuss the impact of technology on the cannabis industry, exploring how the controversial sector has transformed to be more like high-tech agriculture and manufacturing while challenging the counterculture reputation it has held for decades.
Published 09/18/22
In this Breaking Changes episode, Postman Chief Evangelist Kin Lane welcomes Ryan Boder, DAO Core Team Lead at API3. He is an executive leader with a passion for innovation and growth who offers a rare combination of business acumen and tech expertise. He currently heads marketing at API3, connecting Web3 and blockchain to the traditional world. Today he talks about how APIs are beginning to power the web trio universe and the possibilities of this new space.
Published 09/14/22
In this episode of Breaking Changes, Postman Chief Evangelist Kin Lane welcomes Roshan Patel, Content Product Manager of Blockchain at Fanatics. Roshan leads Topps’ global portfolio of soccer NFTs, driving product strategy, content, and partnerships for some of the largest leagues and clubs in the world. Today, he talks about the intersection of blockchain and APIs when it comes to delivering meaningful experiences across sports.
Published 09/11/22
In this episode of Breaking Changes, Postman Chief Evangelist Kin Lane welcomes April Dawson, NCCU Associate Dean of Technology and Innovation and Professor of Law. Dawson shares how her university is investing in the next generation of skills that lawyers are going to need and the role that APIs play in how lawyers practice.
Published 09/07/22
In this episode of Breaking Changes, Postman Chief Evangelist Kin Lane is joined by Robin Bender Ginn, Executive Director of the Open JS Foundation. Robin shares more about the importance of the OpenJS Foundation, open source policy, and how it applies across the API lifecycle, exploring the value delivered by the Linux Foundation and its subgroups.
Published 09/04/22
In this episode of Breaking Changes, Postman Chief Evangelist Kin Lane welcomes Tyler Jewell, managing director at Dell Technologies Capital. Tyler shares his unique view of investing across the developer tool chain. Jewell reveals how he has been tracking in the space for over a decade and some of the most compelling areas of investment.
Published 08/31/22