I just came back from Japan, crows all over Tokyo, but they are pretty much disappear after 9 AM, if you're an early riser you will see them everywhere!
having worked within the CBC, I don't trust the leadership at all! mis-management of funds is a CBC tradition and pastime!
they continue to struggle to understand the digital era, and the executives have gone on record plenty of times in their own town halls expressing their confusion and dismissal of "that thing called the internet".
and while the CBC continues to compare itself to BBC at every turn, that is not a fair comparison, more like a toad contemplating itself a deer.
We run an open, technology focused Slack community at (https://TechMasters.chat / 1000+ members) and recently we got "attacked" by G2Crowd, they had some intern join the group (registration is open) and then went through the profiles of each member, copying the emails then proceeded to email them unsolicited offers for reviews and feedback in exchange for gift cards.
luckily, we're based in Canada, where anti-spam laws (CASL) apply.
we proceeded to contact them in social media / email to ask them to cease this activity and delete the collected emails.
they fought back at first, claiming it was legit and only would put emails under do-not-contact list, we did not accept that, again citing CASL laws, their actions were in clear violations. they stopped responding to our emails.
We have proceeded with a legal consult and have further contacted their legal representative for further action.
G2Crowd has been extremely un-cooperative, and seem to clearly lack understanding of laws and legalities outside of the US.
as a maintainer of many open source projects (both active and inactive) this obviously makes sense, however many projects fall victim to being assumed dead if there is no recent commit history or issues being open frequently ... while in fact the project might be good as-is, or stable, with little need for constant updates ...
Mashape Analytics comes pre-packaged in Docker containers, with its own internal setup of storage solution and tools.
we'll also be exposing a cold-storage mechanism, so you can move historical data out of the system when no-longer needed and retain it for your own future auditing.
Django REST Framework (or any other framework) to build your business logic and API services.
Kong is useful to scale and manage acceess to the API for API consumers (as oppose to end users) as well as a plugin system that abstracts HTTP tooling away from your API application, so you can scale them independently.
open sourcing Kong which powers our API marketplace with billions of calls per day, is not only a major milestone for the team, but also marks a shift in API tooling and services, we're challenging the the status quo and service providers by giving away for free what they charge for in thousands (and in some cases millions) of dollars.
making it open source is the icing on the cake!
we want to give the power back to the developer community and together create amazing open source tooling, while directly adding years of lessons learned to your development stack.
a simple example is when developing against a third party api, and want to validate the behavior of your code and see what the HTTP request looks like, swap the API endpoints with mockbin urls and check, even mock the response with a Bin and build your client "offline" without hitting API throttling rate limits or exceeding your quotas for paid APIs, and much more :)