Here Comes the Asteroid
Deno goes extinct, standards for humans vs agents, a new version of H3, a fresh podcast, how to find breaking changes, a review of the SAP API, and more!
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Breaking Change Detection in OpenAPI
A look at several approaches you can take to help stop breaking changes from sneaking up on you, using OpenAPI Tooling
Docsalot: Docs for bots... and not-bots
Docsalot founder Faizan Khan sits down with APIs You Won't Hate host Mike Bifulco to talk about helping devs automate and build better docs for their products... and more!
OpenAPI is Coming For Us All
In this dispatch of the newsletter: Arrazo is adding SOAP, an interview with Tabstack, Cloudflare Forge, Overlays 1.2.0, Interactive API Testing, and more!
OpenLint: picking up where Spectral left off
In an age of relentless slop, it's never been more important to protect your API ecosystems with automated style guides, and whilst Spectral has slowed down, OpenLint is about to hit the ground running.
Giving Models an API for the Web, with Tabstack
Podcast host Mike talks to Tessa and Steve from Tabstack about building an API that gives standalone models access to the web.
Stop the bloat: Clarity is Kindness
Why generate many word when few word do trick? Also: Golang's new JSON API, Restify 12, The Consensus API, introspect-mcp, and more!
APIs Are Having a Moment
With MCPs driving all kinds of rich functionality, APIs are having a real moment. Also in this newsletter: An Arazzo primer, MCP and OpenAPI, and a Hono deep-dive
Throwaway Tooling
In this edition of the newsletter: burnout in Open Source, GraphQL is governance, Fastify v6, Openapi.tools, and supply chain attacks, oh my!
Quick: Expose Every Endpoint!
When LLMs make code generation faster, how should API devs find the balance between speed and quality? Also in this newsletter: httpretty, Spectral gets forked, and the API Report Card
Extending OpenAPI
One of OpenAPI's unsung heroes is its ability to be extended elegantly. Also in this dispatch: Gin, the HTTP framework for Go, Upyo for sending email, Leaf Wiki, and the HTTP OPTIONS method.
Query Is Here
A fresh new HTTP method makes a big splash in the API world. Also in this newsletter, OpenAPI Python, GraphQL 17, Portman, and API Governance with OpenAPI
🎙️ APIs You Won't Hate (The Podcast)
Designing the API for building Voice Assistants, with Nikhil Gupta from Vapi
Mike sat down for a chat with Nikhil Gupta, founder of Vapi, to talk about designing and building a product around Voice AI for developers. They chat about the right type of onboarding for voice assistants, building tools that API developers can test easily, and the future of Voice Assistants.
🎙️ APIs You Won't Hate (The Podcast)
Unkey: Globally Distributed API key generation, with cofounder James Perkins
James Perkins from Unkey sits down for a chat with Mike Bifulco about Unkey's unique approach to delivering an API product that provides value to its users out of the gate, and the OSS story that got them here.
🎙️ APIs You Won't Hate (The Podcast)
APIs for websites that don't have APIs, with Suchintan Singh from Skyvern
Suchintan Singh, founder of Skyvern (Y Combinator S23) stops by to chat about using LLMs and AI Agents to automate workflows in the cloud. Skyvern's approach to building a business follows a classic startup path: find painful, boring tasks, and automate them!
🎙️ APIs You Won't Hate (The Podcast)
Building a unified API on the shoulders of OSS with Robin Guldener from Nango
Robin Guldener from Nango talks to Mike about building an open, unified API, the value of building on top of Open Source products, and building a growing product team on this episode of the podcast.
🎙️ 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.