Inside the API machine room

Modern software applications exist in an essentially connected space. That connectivity manifests itself as a bridge not just from app to users, not just to teams or groups, not just to databases and the wider expanses of the web itself, but to other applications and smaller application services.

In February 1964 Roberto Gilbert Elizalde, a Mayo Clinic–trained surgeon in Guayaquil, Ecuador, found the ideal candidate for a radical procedure being developed in his laboratory. Julio Luna was a 28-year-old sailor who had lost his right hand in a grenade explosion. Gilbert Elizalde, inspired by the successful transplantation of […]