# Writing > Stay up to date with all the latest Orbital news. From our outputs to your inputs. Source: https://orbitalhq.com/blog Writing # **Blog** Stay up to date with all the latest Orbital news. From our outputs to your inputs. 1. [![](/assets/cover-image-CiixBYLC.png)](/blog/2026-09-22-seed-round-jon-hammant) [ ## **Orbital 1.0:** The journey to the start line ](/blog/2026-09-22-seed-round-jon-hammant)22 Sept 2026 ![](/assets/marty-pitt-DjRHYoiy.png)Marty Pitt[@marty\_pitt](https://twitter.com/marty_pitt) 2. [ ![](/assets/card-base-tile-By5lQiZb.webp)![](/brand/orbital-wordmark-white.svg) ](/blog/2026-09-15-attributes-of-context-layer) [ ## **What makes a good enterprise context layer?** ](/blog/2026-09-15-attributes-of-context-layer)15 Sept 2026 ![](/assets/marty-pitt-DjRHYoiy.png)Marty Pitt[@marty\_pitt](https://twitter.com/marty_pitt) 3. [ ![](/assets/card-base-tile-By5lQiZb.webp)![](/brand/orbital-wordmark-white.svg) ](/blog/2026-09-09-taxononmy-vs-ontology) [ ## **Taxonomy, ontology, semantic layer, context layer:** what's the difference? ](/blog/2026-09-09-taxononmy-vs-ontology)09 Sept 2026 ![](/assets/marty-pitt-DjRHYoiy.png)Marty Pitt[@marty\_pitt](https://twitter.com/marty_pitt) 4. [ ![](/assets/card-base-tile-By5lQiZb.webp)![](/brand/orbital-wordmark-white.svg) ](/blog/2026-08-24-orbital-0-39-workspaces-copilot) [ ## **Orbital 0.39:** workspaces, Copilot and data validation ](/blog/2026-08-24-orbital-0-39-workspaces-copilot)24 Aug 2026 ![](/assets/marty-pitt-DjRHYoiy.png)Marty Pitt[@marty\_pitt](https://twitter.com/marty_pitt) 5. [ ![](/assets/card-base-tile-By5lQiZb.webp)![](/brand/orbital-wordmark-white.svg) ](/blog/2026-01-20-agentic-orchestration-research-paper) [ ## **Benchmarking LLM Accuracy in Real-World API Orchestration** ](/blog/2026-01-20-agentic-orchestration-research-paper)20 Jan 2026 ![](/assets/marty-pitt-DjRHYoiy.png)Marty Pitt[@marty\_pitt](https://twitter.com/marty_pitt) 6. [ ![](/assets/card-base-tile-By5lQiZb.webp)![](/brand/orbital-wordmark-white.svg) ](/blog/2025-11-04-taxi-1.70-more-typechecker-strictness) [ ## **Taxi 1.70 -** More type checker strictness and callable operations ](/blog/2025-11-04-taxi-1.70-more-typechecker-strictness)04 Nov 2025 ![](/assets/marty-pitt-DjRHYoiy.png)Marty Pitt[@marty\_pitt](https://twitter.com/marty_pitt) 7. [ ![](/assets/card-base-tile-By5lQiZb.webp)![](/brand/orbital-wordmark-white.svg) ](/blog/2025-10-29-how-orbital-works) [ ## **How Orbital Works:** Semantic layers and integration ](/blog/2025-10-29-how-orbital-works)29 Oct 2025 ![](/assets/marty-pitt-DjRHYoiy.png)Marty Pitt[@marty\_pitt](https://twitter.com/marty_pitt) 8. [ ![](/assets/card-base-tile-By5lQiZb.webp)![](/brand/orbital-wordmark-white.svg) ](/blog/2025-07-17-changes-to-nulls) [ ## **More consistent null handling** ](/blog/2025-07-17-changes-to-nulls)17 Jul 2025 ![](/assets/marty-pitt-DjRHYoiy.png)Marty Pitt[@marty\_pitt](https://twitter.com/marty_pitt) 9. [![](/assets/title-card-yL2y6iPR.jpg)](/blog/2025-06-26-announcing-orbital-preflight) [ ## **Introducing Orbital Preflight** ](/blog/2025-06-26-announcing-orbital-preflight)26 Jun 2025 ![](/assets/marty-pitt-DjRHYoiy.png)Marty Pitt[@marty\_pitt](https://twitter.com/marty_pitt) 10. [ ![](/assets/card-base-tile-By5lQiZb.webp)![](/brand/orbital-wordmark-white.svg) ](/blog/2025-06-16-is-orbital-a-data-mesh) [ ## **Is Orbital a Data Mesh?** ](/blog/2025-06-16-is-orbital-a-data-mesh)17 Jun 2025 ![](/assets/marty-pitt-DjRHYoiy.png)Marty Pitt[@marty\_pitt](https://twitter.com/marty_pitt) 11. [![](/assets/title-card-BvFRenC9.png)](/blog/2025-05-01-avoiding-breaking-changes-using-semantic-metadata) [ ## **Avoiding breaking changes using Semantic Metadata** ](/blog/2025-05-01-avoiding-breaking-changes-using-semantic-metadata)01 May 2025 ![](/assets/marty-pitt-DjRHYoiy.png)Marty Pitt[@marty\_pitt](https://twitter.com/marty_pitt) 12. [![](/assets/cover-image-DVAnem6x.jpg)](/blog/2024-02-05-new-package-manager) [ ## **New package manager available in beta** ](/blog/2024-02-05-new-package-manager)05 Feb 2024 ![](/assets/marty-pitt-DjRHYoiy.png)Marty Pitt[@marty\_pitt](https://twitter.com/marty_pitt) 13. [ ![](/assets/card-base-tile-By5lQiZb.webp)![](/brand/orbital-wordmark-white.svg) ](/blog/2023-11-30-ultumus-partnership) [ ## **Orbital partners with Ultumus to redefine market data integration** ](/blog/2023-11-30-ultumus-partnership)30 Nov 2023 ![](/assets/marty-pitt-DjRHYoiy.png)Marty Pitt[@marty\_pitt](https://twitter.com/marty_pitt) 14. [![](/assets/soap-robot-CiSFh4Rm.jpg)](/blog/2023-09-04-modernizing-soap-apis) [ ## **Quickly modernizing SOAP APIs** ](/blog/2023-09-04-modernizing-soap-apis)04 Sept 2023 ![](/assets/marty-pitt-DjRHYoiy.png)Marty Pitt[@marty\_pitt](https://twitter.com/marty_pitt) 15. [ ![](/assets/card-base-tile-By5lQiZb.webp)![](/brand/orbital-wordmark-white.svg) ](/blog/2023-05-22-semantic-metadata-101) [ ## **Semantic Metadata 101** ](/blog/2023-05-22-semantic-metadata-101)23 May 2023 ![](/assets/marty-pitt-DjRHYoiy.png)Marty Pitt[@marty\_pitt](https://twitter.com/marty_pitt) 16. [ ![](/assets/card-base-tile-By5lQiZb.webp)![](/brand/orbital-wordmark-white.svg) ](/blog/2023-05-12-why-we-created-taxi) [ ## **Why we created Taxi,** and why we felt the need for Another Schema Language ](/blog/2023-05-12-why-we-created-taxi)12 May 2023 ![](/assets/marty-pitt-DjRHYoiy.png)Marty Pitt[@marty\_pitt](https://twitter.com/marty_pitt) 17. [ ![](/assets/card-base-tile-By5lQiZb.webp)![](/brand/orbital-wordmark-white.svg) ](/blog/2023-04-24-backends-for-frontends-part-1) [ ## **Backends for frontends** ](/blog/2023-04-24-backends-for-frontends-part-1)24 Apr 2023 ![](/assets/michael-stone-DezhII7s.png)Michael Stone[@michaelstoneldn](https://twitter.com/michaelstoneldn) 18. [ ![](/assets/card-base-tile-By5lQiZb.webp)![](/brand/orbital-wordmark-white.svg) ](/blog/2023-04-26-uniting-data-from-multiple-sources) [ ## **Uniting similar data from multiple sources** ](/blog/2023-04-26-uniting-data-from-multiple-sources)23 Apr 2023 ![](/assets/michael-stone-DezhII7s.png)Michael Stone[@michaelstoneldn](https://twitter.com/michaelstoneldn) 19. [ ![](/assets/card-base-tile-By5lQiZb.webp)![](/brand/orbital-wordmark-white.svg) ](/blog/2023-03-21-hello-typescript-sdk) [ ## **Hello,** Typescript SDK ](/blog/2023-03-21-hello-typescript-sdk)23 Mar 2023 ![](/assets/michael-stone-DezhII7s.png)Michael Stone[@michaelstoneldn](https://twitter.com/michaelstoneldn) 20. [ ![](/assets/card-base-tile-By5lQiZb.webp)![](/brand/orbital-wordmark-white.svg) ](/blog/2023-03-13-spring-boot-service-hub) [ ## **Building an API Hub with Spring Boot,** Kotlin and Orbital ](/blog/2023-03-13-spring-boot-service-hub)13 Mar 2023 ![](/assets/marty-pitt-DjRHYoiy.png)Marty Pitt[@marty\_pitt](https://twitter.com/marty_pitt) 21. [ ![](/assets/card-base-tile-By5lQiZb.webp)![](/brand/orbital-wordmark-white.svg) ](/blog/2023-03-06-hello-kotlin-sdk) [ ## **Hello,** Kotlin SDK ](/blog/2023-03-06-hello-kotlin-sdk)24 Feb 2023 ![](/assets/marty-pitt-DjRHYoiy.png)Marty Pitt[@marty\_pitt](https://twitter.com/marty_pitt) 22. [ ![](/assets/card-base-tile-By5lQiZb.webp)![](/brand/orbital-wordmark-white.svg) ](/blog/2023-01-16-using-semantic-metadata) [ ## **Using Semantic Metadata for easier integration** ](/blog/2023-01-16-using-semantic-metadata)16 Jan 2023 ![](/assets/marty-pitt-DjRHYoiy.png)Marty Pitt[@marty\_pitt](https://twitter.com/marty_pitt)