{"podcast":{"title":"M365.FM a Microsoft MVP Podcast by Mirko Peters","slug":"m365-fm-modern-work-security-and-productivity-with-microsoft-365-7311214","podcast_index_feed_id":7311214,"rss_url":"https://www.spreaker.com/show/6704921/episodes/feed","website_url":"https://www.m365.fm","image_url":"https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/dcd2a8cc504197846a71af23bbeb0707.jpg","author":"Mirko Peters - Microsoft 365, Teams, SharePoint, and Copilot for IT Pros","episode_count":989,"summary":"M365.FM is a podcast about Microsoft 365, Microsoft Copilot, AI, Modern Work, security, governance, Power Platform, Azure, and the technologies shaping the future of work.Hosted by Microsoft MVP Mirko Peters, M365.FM brings together Microsoft MVPs, Microsoft employees, product experts, architects, developers, and community leaders from around the world.Each episode goes beyond announcements and hype to explore what Microsoft technologies mean in practice. From Microsoft 365 Copilot and AI agents to Teams, SharePoint, Power Platform, Microsoft Fabric, Entra, Purview, security, governance, adoption, and automation, M365.FM focuses on real-world experience, implementation, strategy, and lessons learned.Expect expert interviews, technical deep dives, practical explainers, and conversations with people building, implementing, and shaping the Microsoft ecosystem.If you work with Microsoft 365, Copilot, AI, Modern Work, or the Microsoft Cloud, M365.FM helps you understand what matters, what works, and what is coming next.Hosted by Mirko Peters, Microsoft MVP. 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Whenever organizations needed to connect systems, expose data, automate processes, or enable new digital experiences, the answer was almost always the same: build another API.At first, the approach worked.Each API solved a specific problem and helped teams move faster. But over time, those point solutions multiplied. What began as flexibility slowly transformed into complexity, creating a fragmented landscape of disconnected services, duplicated logic, inconsistent security controls, and growing technical debt.In this episode of the M365 FM Podcast, we explore why custom APIs have become one of the largest bottlenecks in enterprise technology and why a new generation of code-first, governance-driven backend platforms is emerging to replace them. THE MIDDLEWARE CRISIS NOBODY TALKS ABOUT Many organizations are now managing hundreds of APIs spread across different teams, cloud environments, databases, and security models.The result is a growing middleware crisis where development speed slows down despite increasing investments in technology.Topics discussed include: API sprawl across multiple teams Fragmented authentication models Governance challenges Hidden maintenance costs Technical debt accumulation The episode explains why middleware complexity often becomes a bigger problem than application development itself. WHY CUSTOM APIS BECAME A LIABILITY Custom APIs were originally designed to provide flexibility.Ironically, that flexibility often becomes the source of long-term complexity.The conversation explores how organizations unintentionally create fragmented architectures where every service has its own authentication model, monitoring strategy, deployment process, and governance requi…","meta_description":"For years, custom APIs have been the foundation of modern application development. 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