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API Design Basics: File Uploads
How does a REST API handle uploading images or spreadsheets when it normally only handles JSON or XML?
Civic APIs
An exploration of APIs maintained for public record, with examples from The UK, Australia, and the EU. Plus, the latest from Jira REST API, Fast HTTP, Arazzo, and Designing APIs for Security
A Developer's Guide to API Design-First
Learn API Design-First to build clear, consistent, and efficient APIs. Master OpenAPI, AsyncAPI, and top tools to streamline design, docs, and automation.
A Golden Age for APIs
The tech world looks more and more to APIs to get things done with automation. In this issue: MCP for APIs, Arazzo, GraphOS, TanStack Router, the basics of API Rate Limiting, and more!
API Design Basics: Rate Limiting
Keep APIs running smoothly by controlling how many requests clients can make.
...Surely you mean to call it OpenAPI?
How long can an old name last? We're still trying to get people to say OpenAPI instead of Swagger. Also: Vacuum linting, OpenAPI for Rust Crates, a new Nock, and more!
HTTP Traffic vs OpenAPI
Mergers and Acquisitions are shaping the way we use industry-standard HTTP tools. Also in this newsletter: A fresh Bun, Rails APIs with Clickfunnels, new Express release, and a wild exploit of McDonalds' API in India.
API Design Basics: Designing for Security
Keep these principles in mind when planning and designing an API, to sidestep major security issues before anyone even starts coding.
Clickfunnels and Rails APIs with Rich Steinmetz
Phil & Mike sit down with community member Rich Steinmetz to talk about Clickfunnels, its API surfaces, and what it's like to build a developer product with Ruby on Rails and BulletTrain
New Year, New APIs
In this edition of the newsletter: The Go Developer Survey, tools for working with overlays, Scalar's OpenAPI Parser, and OpenAPI Arrazo in Go!
Testing HTTP Middleware in Laravel
Learn how to create and test Laravel middleware to enhance API functionality while ensuring stability. Includes examples and tips for best practices
🎙️ APIs You Won't Hate (The Podcast)
Every business is an API business, with Allan Knabe from Apiable
Apiable is building an API Portal service that helps API teams to create, secure, market, and monetize API products. In this episode of the podcast, Apiable founder Allan Knabe has a chat with Mike Bifulco about building a great api product.
🎙️ APIs You Won't Hate (The Podcast)
Redocly, OpenAPI, and learning to Moonwalk with Lorna Jane Mitchell
Phil sits down with Lorna Jane Mitchell to get the latest on what's going on at Redocly, the state of OpenAPI 3.1, and what's to come with OpenAPI's proposed 4.0 spec, Moonwalk.
🎙️ APIs You Won't Hate (The Podcast)
Microsoft built Kiota to keep an API with 20,000 endpoints humming
Join us for a chat with Darrel Miller and Vincent Biret from Microsoft's Graph API team. On this episode of the podcast, we discuss Kiota, Microsoft's API-wrangling toolset which was born from a need to manage 20,000 endpoints on their Graph API's v1 endpoint.
🎙️ APIs You Won't Hate (The Podcast)
Catching up with Danny Sheridan from Fern
Mike and Danny Sheridan from Fern chat about updates to Fern: client library SDK codegen, and their great new docs site generator tool.
🎙️ APIs You Won't Hate (The Podcast)
An API to abstract everything, with Roy Pereira from Unified.to
Mike and Phil chat with Roy Pereira from Unified.to, who are building a service that gives dev teams one API to use for integrating with external services. It's as ambitious as it sounds.
🎙️ APIs You Won't Hate (The Podcast)
Creating world-class API devX with Sagar Batchu from Speakeasy
Sagar Batchu from Speakeasyapi.dev shares his insights on helping devs live the dream of building APIs that have world-class developer experience.
🎙️ APIs You Won't Hate (The Podcast)
Rich data for every location on Earth, with Ed Freyfogle from OpenCage
On this episode, we chat with Ed Freyfogle from OpenCage about their API Client libraries for Geocoding, reverse geocoding, and the infrastructure required to keep accurate data points for every location on earth.
🎙️ APIs You Won't Hate (The Podcast)
Permissions are the gift that keep on giving, with Or Weis from Permit.io
On this episode of APIs You Won't Hate (the podcast), Or Weis from Permit.io talks to mike about permissions, authentication, authorization, and the challenges facing developers building out products for real people.
🎙️ APIs You Won't Hate (The Podcast)
No-code APIs and Automation, with Constantin Schreiber from Fastgen
Constantin Schreiber, Co-founder of FastGen, sits down with host Mike to talk about FastGen's no-code API and workflow builder products.
🎙️ APIs You Won't Hate (The Podcast)
Analytics for your API, with Steve McDougall from Treblle
Phil and Mike sit down for a chat with Steve MacDougall, who has just recently started working in Developer Relations at Treblle, a past sponsor of APIs You Won't Hate.
🎙️ APIs You Won't Hate (The Podcast)
Learnin' about webhooks, with Tom Haconen from Svix
On this Episode of the APIs You Won't Hate Podcast, Mike chats with Tom Haconen from Svix about webhooks: a feature area that powers real-time event driven behaviors for API developers.
🎙️ APIs You Won't Hate (The Podcast)
Jazzed about API client library codegen, with Danny Sheridan from Fern
On this episode of APIs You Won't Hate (the podcast), Mike talks to Danny Sheridan from Fern. Codegen for client libraries is becoming easier thanks to tools that help automate the process, like Fern.