Software development has moved quickly in only a decade. From deploying to physical servers, to virtualization, and IaaS to PaaS. One hot trend is FaaS (function-as-a-service), like AWS Lambda, where you deploy snippets of code to be run on command anywhere in the world. The latest development, however, is the Micro API, which builds on serverless computing and FaaS to take API development to the next level.

Every day, the ProgrammableWeb team is busy, updating its three primary directories for APIs, clients (language-specific libraries or SDKs for consuming or providing APIs), and source code samples.

The Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation Limited (OCBC) announced its latest API: the GIRO API. According to the Singapore-based bank, the latest release brings its open API portfolio to 43.

Lego is not the first thing product owners would think of when looking for a model onboarding process. But they should. At least that is Cristiano Betta’s theory over at his blog, who will tell you the lessons you can learn for your API from the Lego onboarding experience. 

Every day, the ProgrammableWeb team is busy, updating its three primary directories for APIs, clients (language-specific libraries or SDKs for consuming or providing APIs), and source code samples.

As we inch closer to the end of the week it’s time to bring you a review of the stories we couldn’t cover with a look at what what going on in the world of APIs. For those yearning for a little competition, the Real Estate Standards Organization (RESO) announced the 2017 RESO DataComp, its first-ever data competition will begin on September 17.

Facebook announced two feature updates to the Facebook Live API. Facebook introduced an automated encoder configuration and frame-accurate start times as a direct result of user feedback. The automated encoder configuration should cutdown on the fine tuning required by publishers during a live stream.

Affectiva, a company that specializes in Artificial Emotional Intelligence (Emotion AI), has announced that the new Emotion API for Speech is now available to select beta users. The Affectiva Emotion API for Speech (beta) analyzes recorded speech identifying emotion events and gender.

A vulnerability within Android 8.0 Oreo's Autofill API was recently reported in a white paper published on GitHub. The Autofill API was one of the highly anticipated features within the Oreo release, because the move to API access to autofill functionality greatly increased the speed in comparison to the legacy autofill method (i.e. via Accessibility Services).

Laravel, has become the most used PHP framework for projects of all scopes (there are other PHP frameworks too like CodeIgniter, Symfony, Yii, and Zend). Whether you're working on a simple web app or a huge corporate portal, Laravel is up for the task.