First, as Reb Natale reports, banks like Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, JP Morgan, Deutsche Bank and many others are very much on the lookout for engineers with open-source programming skills. And as Max Bowie writes, as market data (and by extension, alternative data) becomes ever-more complex and valuable for areas such as data science, the use of APIs is growing rapidly. (More on that below, actually.)

These two trends—increased API usage as a data delivery mechanism and the use of open