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If you're a software developer, or have been involved in the development of a software project in any capacity, then you will be aware that at some point you will inevitably need to make use of external services to enhance your application. These services, called "APIs", could be used for any number of things, such as importing data, payment processing (e.g. Stripe), posting to social media platforms, and so on.

Most APIs are built to be generally available to the public, and so connecting to them is simple, often as easy as just generating an API key. You then authenticate the connection with the key, and your application is able to communicate with the API.

I am very proud to announce that I will be co-presenting a session at Dreamforce 2019 on Wed 20 Nov, in San Francisco, with Dileep Burki, Senior Director, Product Management Salesforce.

For anyone unfamiliar with this massive event held annually in Salesforce’s home city, San Francisco, last year’s 4 day event drew 170,000 attendees from around the world, covering all industries, with another 13 million viewers tuning in live.

A Top MBA Graduate's Experience with Software Development.

My first computer was a Vic20 console (similar to the Commodore 64). It took cartridges as well as had a tape drive. As there was only one game, the only way I could play different games was to purchase a big 1000 page games coding book. For hours I would copy lines of code and save the progress to cassette tapes. You don’t know coding frustration until you have completed 2000 lines of code and the program doesn’t work, though it did teach me the skill of debugging.

The vast majority of web applications these days have some sort of a notification system to communicate with their users. Typically, this is by sending them emails. Given emails are a major part of modern-day communication, application developers try to utilise email workflows for users to interact with their apps.

One example would be: when a user receives an email from an app (e.g issue tracker), they can then reply to that email with a comment and that comment will automatically be added to the app database. This makes the user experience seamless as users now don't have to switch between apps to provide data. In this case, the email client and a ticketing app.