API World

Practical problems that innovative product and tech teams face increasingly go far beyond the comfortable usual. "Big Data" doesn't just mean petabytes of data or a data-set that doesn't fit in a single large RDBMS, anymore. A "distributed system" doesn't just mean a clever multi-tier architecture or even an AWS deployment happily humming-along across multiple regions.     Increasingly, Big Data problems mean processing data-sets the various parts of which are distributed across multiple organizations. A "distributed system" is usually one which needs to connect non-heterogenous systems across organizational boundaries. Such problems are far from trivial and require new kinds of approaches. Linked APIs architectural style is a new frontier of distributed programming and Big Data: one that can cross over organizational, technological and cultural boundaries to break through data silos to better integrate data and processes.