Design First, AI Never
In the age of vibe-coding, how can we convince teams to invest in design before building APIs? Also in this newsletter: OpenAPI 3.3, Reddit's microservices architecture, an update to Speakeasy for OpenApi 3.2.0, and more!
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Zero-Downtime Migration from Laravel Vapor to Laravel Cloud
Move your Laravel API from Vapor to Cloud in phases, without making a complete hash of it and wishing you never bothered.
NestJS: Bad, or Really Bad? 😉
In this newsletter: the Resty library for APIs in Golang, a new Bruno release, an interview with Kin Lane, and API Schema Automation for devs
Building a Sustainable Future in APIs with Kin Lane
Kin Lane drops by to talk to Phil Sturgeon about his new startup, the changing landscape of API tech, why REST fundamentals are still important, and building sustainable API tools.
TanStack DB: No More Broken APIs
A fresh database framework with thoughtful developer experience, forms + JSON Schema, Open API 3.2.0 in .net, and more!
Postman was Offline?
Should an HTTP client require a cloud connection to work? Also in this edition: JSONRiver, http caching, Jentic OpenAPI tools, Node 25, and GraphQLConf videos.
Goodbye Stoplight?
Like saying farewell to a dear old friend, we reflect on our time with Stoplight. Also in this newsletter: Upgrading to OpenAPI 3.2, OpenAPI Format, Fibre for Go, and more!
Automatically Upgrade to OpenAPI v3.2
Upgrade old OpenAPI/Swagger documents to the latest and greatest OAS 3.2 with ease.
OpenAPI Format: A GUI for Overlays
Overlays can be tricky to wrap your head around, but this handy GUI can help it all make sense.
Stream GeoJSON in a HTTP/REST API
Once you've learned the basics of JSON Streaming in APIs, it starts to become a whole lot more interesting for a whole lot more use-cases.
OpenAPI 3.2... Finally!
The long-awaited launch of the newest version of the OpenAPI standard, plus JSON Streaming, Scaling API Workflows, a new RPC protocol, and a peek at Bluesky's AT Protocol.
Is Your API Secure?
API Security is one of those things that isn't a problem until it is. Also in this newsletter: an http client for Go, JSON streaming in OpenAPI3.2, API Days London, HTTP Golden Girls, and Node HTTP Servers on CloudFlare workers.
🎙️ APIs You Won't Hate (The Podcast)
Building a developer brand and simple API for email, with Zeno Rocha from Resend
Zeno Rocha from Resend shares the story of his Y Combinator backed company, and what it's like to build great open source tools, focused & minimal APIs, and a great engineering team.
🎙️ APIs You Won't Hate (The Podcast)
Princess Beef Heavy Industries, Vacuum, Wiretap: API linting & Compliance with Quobix
Phil has a chat with Quobix about his tools for API linting, testing, and compliance. We hear the story behind Open Source tools Vacuum and Wiretap, and Quobix's journey building highly performant devtools with golang.
🎙️ 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.