#40 - Marco Palladino // CTO Kong

How to Build an API, how to commercialise an open-source project & the evolving CTO role

I spoke with Marco Palladino, Co-Founder & CTO at Kong 🐒, the market-leading API management gateway Solution. Learn deep insight into APIs, the future of the API Economy, and what it takes to build a great API from someone who has been involved in the API industry since its infancy.

Listen to find out:

• How to build an API for each use case (external, microservice & mobile).
• Why it's only the beginning of the API economy 💹
• Why the best infrastructure software has its roots in the open-source ☸️.
• How he managed to commercialise💸 an open-source project without alienating its community 👥

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