From Algorithms to APIs

Episode 05   Published May 30, 2024 11 minute watch

Summary

Landon Miles keeps the focus on where you'd actually use the building blocks of IT automation rather than how they work under the hood. He defines an algorithm as a reproducible set of steps to solve a problem and describes programming languages as the way you convey those steps to a computer. No-code and low-code tools now let you automate without writing scripts by hand. He closes on APIs, using a restaurant analogy to show how systems like Automox and Rapid7 pass data back and forth so you stop manually importing CSV files every day.