Scott Morrison

On May 15-16 2012, I will be at the Privacy Identity Innovation (pii2012) conference held at the Bell Harbour International Conference Center in Seattle. I will be participating on a panel moderated by Eve Maler from Forrester, titled Privacy, Zero Trust and the API Economy. It will take place at 2:55pm on Tuesday, May 15th: The Facebook Connect model is real, it’s powerful, and now it’s everywhere. Large volumes of accurate information about individuals can now flow easily through user-authorized API calls. Zero Trust requires initial perfect distrust between disparate networked systems, but are we encouraging users to add back too much trust, too readily? What are the ways this new model can be used for “good” and “evil”, and how can we mitigate the risks? On Thursday May 17 at 9am Pacific Time, I will be delivering a webinar on API identity technologies, once a... (more)

The Importance of the Well-Designed API

We have worked with many APIs here at Layer 7. And over time we’ve seen it all, ranging from the good to the bad. We even see the downright ugly. Now a good API is a beautiful thing; it encourages innovation, abstracts appropriately, and is designed with enough forethought that nobody needs to change it down the road. Resiliency is a good quality in an API. APIs are a little like cockroaches in that they will likely outlive the human race. But what about the other ones? The ugly and bad ones? This is where developers could use some guidance. Truth is, good API design isn’t really... (more)

QCon London 2012 Is The Place To Be This Week

I’m off to London for QCon 2012, the 6th International Software Development Conference. I am one of the track chairs for this meeting. I’ve just learned that the show is now sold out, but there is a wait list if you have not already registered. All indications are that this is going to be an outstanding conference, so if there is any way you can possibly attend, you should make the effort. I’m hosting a track this Friday called Industrial-Strength Architecture for Integration and Web Computing. Here is how I described the track to potential speakers: The enterprise is demanding... (more)

The Future Is A Story About Mobile Computing

Earlier today CNET published an interview with Marc Andreessen, in which the Netscape founder and influential VC outlines his personal vision for where tech is heading in the near future. His new tagline, from a piece he wrote for the New York Times, is “software is eating the world”, a blunt reference to how software increasingly appears out of nowhere to utterly consume a traditional practice or business model—be this in commerce, the social realm, or just about everywhere. Andreessen asserts that this affect will only accelerate in the future because of the explosion we are e... (more)

The Future Is A Story About Mobile Computing

Earlier today CNET published an interview with Marc Andreessen, in which the Netscape founder and influential VC outlines his personal vision for where tech is heading in the near future. His new tagline, from a piece he wrote for the New York Times, is “software is eating the world”, a blunt reference to how software increasingly appears out of nowhere to utterly consume a traditional practice or business model—be this in commerce, the social realm, or just about everywhere. Andreessen asserts that this affect will only accelerate in the future because of the explosion we are e... (more)