You would think in the Internet age, primary sources for a widely discussed event — one that's helped define cloud computing and today's cascading digital transformation of enterprises — would be easy to track down. The original footprint must be somewhere. But that's not so in the case of the arresting "API Mandate," perhaps better thought of now as the API Mandate or API-First Mandate. It's famo
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