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Phil Sturgeon

Co-founder of APIs You Won't Hate, and ex-techie dedicated to woodland creation, and ancient woodland restoration. Co-founder of @ProtectEarthUK. @philsturgeon@mastodon.green

APIMatic Review: Developer Experience-as-a-Service

APIMatic Review: Developer Experience-as-a-Service

This article is sponsored by APIMatic, in that they're paying for our time to review their product, but they're not paying for what we write. If it's rubbish, we'll let you know. I've used APIMatic a fair bit in the past, but never had the time to write about it.

Turn HTTP Traffic into OpenAPI with Optic

Turn HTTP Traffic into OpenAPI with Optic

Capture real HTTP traffic from production or anywhere else, and create OpenAPI from it, for documentation, mocks, SDKs, or contract testing.

Securing APIs with the Spectral OWASP Ruleset

Securing APIs with the Spectral OWASP Ruleset

Recently I've been on a run of making new all powerful Spectral rulesets, but so far it's been focused on the concept of automating style guides, with the concrete example of the APIs You Won't Hate: API Style Guide showing how it can be done with NPM and tested with

Don't roll your own API Management tools, with Josh Twist from Zuplo

Don't roll your own API Management tools, with Josh Twist from Zuplo

Our guest this episode is Josh Twist, CEO and Co-founder of Zuplo. We chat about Zuplo's history, their developer products and audience, and the complexities of maintaining APIs in small and large companies.

Testing Spectral Style Guides with Jest

Testing Spectral Style Guides with Jest

Readers of this blog will be familiar with the concept of Automating API style guides implemented with programable API linters like Spectral. When combined with the power of API Design-First, these API style guides can power the core of your API design reviews, improving consistency and reducing the frequency of

Distribute Spectral Style Guides with NPM

Distribute Spectral Style Guides with NPM

At some point in the growth of an organization there will come a time where you've got too many different APIs with random different data formats, naming conventions, security schemes, and generally it feels bizarre and frustrating trying to call any API because you cannot share any code between API

Contract Testing a Laravel API with OpenAPI

Contract Testing a Laravel API with OpenAPI

Your API does a bunch of great stuff, and your OpenAPI document tells everyone about all the great stuff that your API can do, but making sure those two sources of truth agree can be a bit of a struggle at first. Whether you followed the API design-first workflow and