Autonomous APIs: the future of APIs? – Interview w/ Zdenek Nemec

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Episode Description: Jessica B. Harris may have been born and raised in New York City, but she has Tennessee roots through her father and has spent much of her life split between homes in the Northeast and the South – specifically New Orleans. For more than fifty years, she has been a college professor, a writer, and a lecturer, and her many books have earned her a reputation as an authority on food of the African Diaspora, as well as a lifetime achievement award from the James Beard Foundation. A few years back, Netflix adapted her book, High on the Hog: A Culinary Journey from Africa to America , into a 4 part docuseries. And I’m very proud to say that she’s a longtime contributor to Southern Living with a regular column called The Welcome Table. This episode was recorded in the Southern Living Birmingham studios, and Sid and Jessica talked about her mother’s signature mac and cheese, the cast-iron skillet she’d be sure to save if ever her house were on fire, and her dear friend, the late New Orleans chef Leah Chase. For more info visit: southernliving.com/biscuitsandjam Biscuits & Jam is produced by : Sid Evans - Editor-in-Chief, Southern Living Krissy Tiglias - GM, Southern Living Lottie Leymarie - Executive Producer Michael Onufrak - Audio Engineer/Producer Jeremiah McVay - Producer Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices…

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Choosing which API to integrate with is always a bit of a gamble: will the API keep working? How fast will it change? Will you have the time and money to keep updating your integration as fast as the API changes? In this edition of the API Resilience podcast, Zdenek Nemec (founder, Superface.ai) explains how true machine-to-machine communication could radically transform all of this. Imagine if anybody could use the global API information infrastructure and trust that the right connection gets made without somebody having to manually engineer it. Listen in to hear Zdenek Nemec discuss the future of APIs with Kristof Van Tomme (CEO & co-founder, Pronovix) and Mark Winberry (director of US operations, Pronovix), the hosts of the show.

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Autonomous APIs: the future of APIs? – Interview w/ Zdenek Nemec

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