Oct 21, 2026

AI Cut Our Research Time From 7 Days to 15 Minutes — Gareth Yoder, Vanguard

Gareth Yoder of Vanguard describes modernizing a cash ledger handling up to 30 million calls per day by running data, producer, and consumer migrations in parallel. Key themes include exposing legacy code to AI through an MCP server, reducing a seven-day research cycle to fifteen minutes, reimagining rather than lifting and shifting, and maintaining observability throughout the migration.

Apr 02, 2026

Learning API Styles • Lukasz Dynowski & Sam Newman • GOTO 2026

This GOTO Book Club episode features an in-depth conversation between Sam Newman and Lukasz Dynowski, co-author of "Learning API Styles," exploring the foundational network layer of APIs, various API styles, critical trade-off decisions, and future trends like WebTransport and gRPC. The discussion emphasizes treating APIs as products, understanding consumer context, and the eight key characteristics of a well-designed API, complemented by a cautionary tale on database access.