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.
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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
Happy Holidays from APIs You Won't Hate
We're ready to wrap up another year with some good old fashioned holiday REST. Plus, Microcks and Undici and Cloudflare API Client Language Popularity survey results!
Mr. Bluesky
A massive uptick in people from the online tech community moving to Bluesky has made the social internet feel a whole lot like it did back in the good old days... and their APIs are pretty stellar.
Learn OpenAPI from these Realistic Examples
If you prefer to learn by looking at examples, maybe a cheeky bit of copy-paste coding, these OpenAPI examples can get you started.
State of JS Survey Time
The annual state of JavaScript survey gives us a chance to weigh in on the tools we use, what we like and don't like about them, and to reflect on how the ecosystem has grown in the past year.
The "Don't Have Time to Create API Documentation" Paradox
Instead of rushing out a barely planned API and forgetting how it works in the flurry of changes that follow, you can document it before you build to keep everyone on the same page.
The OpenAPI Discriminator is Redundant & Confusing
A quick look at why OpenAPI's "discriminator" keyword is an outdated concept that you can probably skip worrying about learning.
Powerful HTTP/API Clients: Alternatives to Postman
A comparison of quick and easy graphical HTTP clients you can use if you're considering alternatives to Postman.
🎙️ 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.