APIs You Won't Hate

Building a Sustainable Future in APIs with Kin Lane

APIs You Won't Hate — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 13:15:34 +0000

Kin Lane - personal website
API Evangelist
Kin on GitHub
Kin on Socials: Bluesky Mastodon LinkedIn
Check out Kin's Podcast, API Evangelist Conversations (Spotify & Apple Podcasts)

Creators & Guests

Kin Lane - Guest
Phil Sturgeon - Host

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All about Mocking, with Wiremock's Tom Akehurst

APIs You Won't Hate — Tue, 01 Jul 2025 12:38:52 +0000

Mocking is one of those things that started out as a simple idea, and has evolved to support an incredible amount of developer use cases over the years. In this episode of the Podcast, Tom from Wiremock chats with Phil about what mocking is, strategies for not littering OpenAPI doc with mocking details, and ways to keep api dev teams empowered by mocking, instead of hampered by it.

Wiremock
- on BlueSky @wiremock.bsky.social
- on Mastodon @fosstodon/wiremock
- on GitHub @wiremock/wiremock

Creators & Guests

Phil Sturgeon - Host
Tom Akehurst - Guest

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Generating API Specs can be Painful, with Joel Clermont from Mastering Laravel

APIs You Won't Hate — Tue, 01 Jul 2025 11:58:14 +0000

In this episode of 'APIs You Won't Hate', the Phil discusses API development with Joel Clermont, a prominent member of the Laravel PHP community.

They explore different approaches to building APIs, focusing particularly on the debate between code-first and design-first methodologies. Joel shares his experiences and challenges with generating API specifications and expresses his preference for manually writing specs. They also touch on challenges related to auto-generated specs, including the risk of drift between code and documentation. Various tools and strategies for improving API spec accuracy and integration are discussed, highlighting the importance of planning and thorough documentation in API development.

Joel Clermont
- website - joelclermont.com
- github - @joelclermont
Why I don't like generating API specs on Mastering Laravel
OpenAPI Overlay spec on GitHub
Use OpenAPI Overlays Today from APIs You Won't Hate
Scramble for Laravel

Creators & Guests

Phil Sturgeon - Host
Joel Clermont - Guest

Rails APIs and Clickfunnels with Rich Steinmetz

APIs You Won't Hate — Mon, 03 Feb 2025 12:00:18 +0000

Rich Steinmetz (https://richstone.io/meet-rich)
Clickfunnels
- https://clickfunnels.com/
- Developer portal https://developers.myclickfunnels.com/
Bullet Train for Ruby on Rails - https://bullettrain.co/docs/api
- SuperScaffolding - https://bullettrain.co/docs/super-scaffolding
Hyrum's Law - https://www.hyrumslaw.com/

Creators & Guests

Rich Steinmetz - Guest

Catching up with Phil, Mike, and Alexander

APIs You Won't Hate — Fri, 01 Nov 2024 14:21:56 +0000

Though we've been working together for a long while, it turns out that Alexander, Phil, and Mike had never all recorded a podcast together before. We caught up to catch up on what everyone's been up to these past few months, to talk APIs, and to gab about the future of this very community.

Creators & Guests

Phil Sturgeon - Host
Mike Bifulco - Host
Alexander Karan - Host

No more API usage nightmares, with Alex Klarfeld from Supergood.ai

APIs You Won't Hate — Thu, 15 Aug 2024 01:09:00 +0000

Supergood.ai
- OSS on github
Alex Klarfeld
- GitHub
- LinkedIn
- Threads / Twitter

Creators & Guests

Mike Bifulco - Host
Alex Klarfeld - Guest

Building an API for Global News with Artem Bugara from Newscatcher

APIs You Won't Hate — Wed, 31 Jul 2024 06:00:00 +0000

Artem Bugara
- twitter
Newscatcher API
- On GitHub kotartemiy/newscatcher
- Research Papers

Creators & Guests

Artem Bugara - Guest

Convince me this is a bad idea: how Mercoa built a platform for accounts Payable

APIs You Won't Hate — Mon, 15 Jul 2024 06:00:00 +0000

Show notes

Sandeep Dinesh
Mercoa
- GitHub - mercoa-finance
- LinkedIn

(00:00) - Sandeep Dinesh from Mercoa
(15:57) - Debate me!

Creators & Guests

Mike Bifulco - Host
Sandeep Dinesh - Guest

Designing the API for building Voice Assistants, with Nikhil Gupta from Vapi

APIs You Won't Hate — Mon, 17 Jun 2024 12:43:14 +0000

(00:00) - Introduction and Guest Introduction
(00:52) - The Future of Voice AI
(01:56) - Wapi's Elevator Pitch
(03:27) - Challenges and Opportunities in Voice AI
(05:11) - Building Voice AI Solutions
(11:00) - The Genesis of Wapi
(16:39) - API Design and Developer Experience
(21:23) - Docker vs Kubernetes: A Developer's Perspective
(22:28) - Hello World with Wapi: A Hands-On Experience
(23:34) - The Developer Experience: Making APIs Accessible
(26:09) - The Future of Dev Tooling with AI
(28:43) - Use Cases and Real-World Applications
(33:23) - Technical Deep Dive: Building with Node and Kubernetes
(37:59) - Team and Future Plans
(39:15) - Conclusion and Final Thoughts

vapi.ai
hyperbound.ai - call bots to practice selling

(00:00) - Introduction and Guest Introduction
(00:52) - The Future of Voice AI
(01:56) - Wapi's Elevator Pitch
(03:27) - Challenges and Opportunities in Voice AI
(05:11) - Building Voice AI Solutions
(11:00) - The Genesis of Wapi
(16:39) - API Design and Developer Experience
(21:23) - Docker vs Kubernetes: A Developer's Perspective
(22:28) - Hello World with Wapi: A Hands-On Experience
(23:34) - The Developer Experience: Making APIs Accessible
(26:09) - The Future of Dev Tooling with AI
(28:43) - Use Cases and Real-World Applications
(33:23) - Technical Deep Dive: Building with Node and Kubernetes
(37:59) - Team and Future Plans
(39:15) - Conclusion and Final Thoughts

Creators & Guests

Mike Bifulco - Host
Nikhil Gupta - Guest

Unkey's Globally Distributed API key generation - with cofounder James Perkins

APIs You Won't Hate — Wed, 15 May 2024 14:11:53 +0000

Unkey:
- https://unkey.com
- OSS on GitHub: https://github.com/unkeyed/unkey
James Perkins
- GitHub
- Twitter (@james_r_perkins)

Creators & Guests

James Perkins - Guest
Mike Bifulco - Host

APIs for websites that don't have APIs, with Suchintan Singh from Skyvern

APIs You Won't Hate — Fri, 05 Apr 2024 11:35:55 +0000

Skyvern https://www.skyvern.com/
Skyvern is Open Source! https://github.com/Skyvern-AI/skyvern
Launch on Y Combinator's site: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/skyvern
Suchintan Singh (YC S23) on LinkedIn

Creators & Guests

Mike Bifulco - Host
Suchintan Singh - Guest

Building a unified API on the shoulders of OSS with Robin Guldener from Nango

APIs You Won't Hate — Mon, 01 Apr 2024 02:17:50 +0000

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.

Creators & Guests

Mike Bifulco - Host
Robin Guldener - Guest

Building a developer brand and simple API for email, with Zeno Rocha from Resend

APIs You Won't Hate — Fri, 15 Mar 2024 15:33:46 +0000

Zeno's flash->javascript demo with HTML5, Wormz
- https://zenorocha.github.io/wormz/
Zeno Rocha
- @ZenoRocha on Twitter
- @zenorocha on Threads
Dracula theme
React email
Resend.com
Resend Forward
- Broadcasts - marketing emails
- Batch email sending - send 100 emails with one API call

Creators & Guests

Mike Bifulco - Host
Zeno Rocha - Guest

Princess Beef Heavy Industries, Vacuum, Wiretap: API linting & Compliance with Quobix

APIs You Won't Hate — Fri, 01 Mar 2024 13:28:49 +0000

Quobix - Dave Shanley's site. Code is art
daveshanley/vacuum on GitHub - the world's fastest OpenAPI 3, OpenAPI 2 / Swagger linter
wework/speccy on GitHub - Well Spectually 🤓 Enforce quality rules on your OpenAPI 3.0.x specifications.
Wire⚡️Tap - is the world’s coolest OpenAPI compliance and testing tool, from Quobix
Battle of the API Ratings from APIs You Won't Hate - Dive into a detailed comparison of Trebble's API Insights and Zuplo's Rate my API, exploring their unique approaches to evaluating API design, performance, and security
Openapi.tools - an Open Source and community-driven list of high-quality, modern tools for OpenAPI from APIs You Won't Hate.

Is your API able? With Allan Knabe from Apiable

APIs You Won't Hate — Wed, 14 Feb 2024 13:41:09 +0000

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.

Redocly, OpenAPI, and learning to Moonwalk with Lorna Jane Mitchell

APIs You Won't Hate — Mon, 22 Jan 2024 06:00:00 +0000

Lorna Jane Mitchell - lornajane.net
Redocly - https://redocly.com/
Meet Redocly CLI: The Modern OpenAPI Sidekick
OpenAPI 3.1 Spec
OpenAPI Moonwalk (4.0 proposed spec)
Find great tools for working with OpenAPI at https://openapi.tools

Microsoft built Kiota to keep an API with 20,000 endpoints humming

APIs You Won't Hate — Mon, 15 Jan 2024 12:44:01 +0000

Catching up with Danny Sheridan from Fern

APIs You Won't Hate — Wed, 15 Nov 2023 16:01:41 +0000

Mike and Danny Sheridan from Fern chat about updates to Fern: client library SDK codegen, and their great new docs site generator tool.

Fern - https://buildwithfern.com/
Danny Sheridan - https://www.linkedin.com/in/sheridandanny/

An API to abstract everything, with Roy Pereira from Unified.to

APIs You Won't Hate — Thu, 13 Jul 2023 12:03:39 +0000

Unified.to - one API to integrate them all
- twitter: @unified_api
- linkedin: Unified-to
Roy Pereira online:
Use Promo code APISYOUWONTHATE2023 for 3 free months on Unified's Startup Plan

Creating world-class API devX with Sagar Batchu from Speakeasy

APIs You Won't Hate — Sat, 01 Jul 2023 13:41:05 +0000

Sagar Batchu
- join speakeasy slack
Speakeasy - SDKs for your API https://speakeasyapi.dev
- join beta
sdks as runtimes - terraform
openapi for chatgpt
OSS
- openapi validator
- templating engine
AI release - clippy for your OpenAPI Spec

Rich data for every location on Earth, with Ed Freyfogle from OpenCage

APIs You Won't Hate — Mon, 12 Jun 2023 06:00:00 +0000

OpenCage: Convert coordinates to and from places
OpenCage Client Libraries
Environmental Commitment
Ed Freyfogle: Cofounder of OpenCage (freyfogle.com, LinkedIn, Mastodon)
OpenStreetMap
Localistico - Taking Customers from Search to Store
Paper Towns
GeoMob
- meetups
- podcast
OpenCage on Mastodon

Creators & Guests

Mike Bifulco - Host
Ed Freyfogle - Guest

Permissions are the gift that keep on giving, with Or Weis from Permit.io

APIs You Won't Hate — Fri, 02 Jun 2023 12:56:05 +0000

Permit.io - Never Build Permissions Again
Opal - open-source project: Open Policy Administration Layer
Or Weis
- @orweis
Or's talk about onboarding and complexity - https://youtu.be/1_Iz0tRQCH4
Permit elements - ready-made UI components for user management and access control

Foaz - front-end only authorization

No-code APIs and Automation, with Constantin Schreiber from Fastgen

APIs You Won't Hate — Mon, 08 May 2023 11:59:50 +0000

Fastgen - Build scalable backends and automations: Request access to the beta at https://fastgen.com/
- Fastgen's profile on Y Combinator
- YC Winter 23 Batch page
Constantin Schreiber -
- email: constantin@fastgen.com
- LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/constantinschreiber/
Devs: It's okay to use no-code tools editorial by Mike Bifulco

Creators & Guests

Mike Bifulco - Host
Constantin Schreiber - Guest

Analytics for your API, with Steve McDougall from Treblle

APIs You Won't Hate — Wed, 19 Apr 2023 06:00:00 +0000

Phil and Mike sit down for a chat with Steve McDougall, who has just recently started working in Developer Relations at Treblle, a past sponsor of APIs You Won't Hate.

Treblle - Mission Control For Your APIs
Steve McDougall on Mastodon: @juststeveking@php.social
Steve McDougall on twitter: @juststeveking

API Quality Score https://www.treblle.com/features/api-quality-score
Green Software Foundation https://learn.greensoftware.foundation/
Current YouTube playlist for API content: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKJBt7aeK3k_v52GHzGgRDwoxWRvweOuA
Recording of Livestream with Steve & Phil: https://www.youtube.com/live/HxxlSQtsYU8?feature=share
Building APIs in Laravel talk at Cambridge PHP: https://youtu.be/CYPLEvJGpPU
Testing JSON:API endpoints in Laravel with PestPHP: https://www.juststeveking.uk/blog/testing-json-api-endpoints-with-pestphp/
Building APIs in Laravel: https://www.juststeveking.uk/blog/building-apis-in-laravel/
Eloquent API calls: https://www.juststeveking.uk/blog/eloquent-api-calls/

Interested in sponsoring APIs You Won't Hate? Get in touch!

Learnin' about webhooks, with Tom Haconen from Svix

APIs You Won't Hate — Wed, 05 Apr 2023 07:59:00 +0000

Svix - webhooks as a service - https://svix.com
Svix play - https://www.svix.com/play/
Svix is hiring engineers - https://www.svix.com/careers/
ngrok - https://ngrok.com/
Catch Tom Haconen online - tom@svix.com svix.com/slack

Creators & Guests

Mike Bifulco - Host
Tom Hacohen - Guest

Jazzed about API client library codegen, with Danny Sheridan from Fern

APIs You Won't Hate — Wed, 22 Mar 2023 17:33:32 +0000

Fern - Build APIs Twice as fast - https://buildwithfern.com/

Fern on GitHub - https://github.com/fern-api/fern

Fern's Profile with YCombinator - https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/fern

Danny Sheridan - CEO and cofounder of Fern danny@buildwithfern.com

buf.build - protobuf codegen utility - https://buf.build/

Creators & Guests

Mike Bifulco - Host
Danny Sheridan - Guest

Stigg: Infrastructure for pricing models with Anton Zagrebelny

APIs You Won't Hate — Tue, 07 Mar 2023 13:17:32 +0000

Stigg: https://www.stigg.io/ - API-first pricing and packaging

Stigg is Hiring: https://jobs.lever.co/stigg

Find Anton Zagrebelny onlin: Linkedin - GitHub

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Thanks for listening to APIs You Won't Hate

Creators & Guests

Mike Bifulco - Host
Anzon Zagrebelny - Guest

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

APIs You Won't Hate — Thu, 16 Feb 2023 15:55:23 +0000

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.

We also discuss Zuplo's support for APIs You Won't Hate through their recent sponsorship of https://openapi.tools. Thanks so much to Zuplo for supporting our community!

Creators & Guests

Mike Bifulco - Host
Phil Sturgeon - Host
joshtwist.eth - Guest

Funding Open Source with Dudley Carr from Stack Aid

APIs You Won't Hate — Mon, 23 Jan 2023 07:00:00 +0000

Stack Aid - https://www.stackaid.us/
Dudley Carr - @dudley@mastodon.social

Note-taking tools for devs, with Drew White from Stashpad

APIs You Won't Hate — Mon, 09 Jan 2023 07:00:00 +0000

Stashpad - https://stashpad.com/
Stashpad Discord - https://discord.gg/ScxPxcN9fK

Drew White - @drucial

API Environmentalism with Alexander Karan of Climate Clever

APIs You Won't Hate — Tue, 02 Aug 2022 02:10:01 +0000

Mike chats with Alexander Karan, CTO of Climate Clever, where "You can't manage what you don't measure" is a mantra. Climate Clever is an API-first company helping businesses, schools, and homeowners in Australia manage and minimize their carbon footprints.

Climate Clever - https://www.climateclever.org/
Alexander's recent Article on APIs You Won't Hate: Modern API deployment options in the cloud
Scope 1 and Scope 2 Inventory Guidance - US EPA
Alexander Karan (@alexanderkaran_) on twitter

Thank you so much to our sponsors:

Lob: https://lob.com/careers
Treblle: https://treblle.com/apisyoulove

An API for APIs with Gil Feig from Merge

APIs You Won't Hate — Wed, 01 Jun 2022 22:54:34 +0000

On this episode, Mike talks to cofounder of Merge, Gil Feig, about building a service that integrates with many APIs.

Thank you so much to our sponsors:

Lob: https://lob.com/careers
Treblle: https://treblle.com/apisyoulove

API Data Privacy with Sean Falconer from Skyflow

APIs You Won't Hate — Sat, 30 Apr 2022 16:33:08 +0000

Mike speaks with Sean Falconer, head of Developer Relations at Skyflow

IEEE Conference on Security and Privacy
Skyflow blog
Sean's article on storing SSNs
Robinhood data breach
Sean's article on Software Engineering Daily, Why Everyone Needs a Data Privacy Vault

Thank you so much to our sponsors:

Lob: https://lob.com/careers
Treblle: https://treblle.com/apisyoulove

The road to OSS Nirvana

APIs You Won't Hate — Sat, 26 Mar 2022 15:59:25 +0000

Mike is starting work at Stripe!
What the world looks like for Open API and JSON Schema going forward https://json-schema.org/blog/posts/json-schema-joins-the-openjsf
Mozilla's 2020 Layoffs
Writing for APIs You Won't Hate - https://github.com/orgs/apisyouwonthate/projects/4

Thank you so much to our sponsors:

Lob: https://lob.com/careers
Treblle: https://treblle.com/apisyoulove

Sledgehammers on the job site

APIs You Won't Hate — Mon, 28 Feb 2022 15:46:23 +0000

Links from today's show

Phil's reforestation charity

Protect Earth

Posts on APIs You Won't Hate

API Tooling

Akita https://www.akitasoftware.com/
Optic https://www.useoptic.com/

Serverless functions in JAMstack frameworks

Thank you so much to our sponsors:

Lob: https://lob.com/careers
Treblle: https://treblle.com/apisyoulove

Seeing the forest and the trees in 2022

APIs You Won't Hate — Mon, 03 Jan 2022 06:00:00 +0000

Thanks to Lob.com for sponsoring APIs You Won't hate - join the lobster pod at https://www.lob.com/careers 🦞

Support Phil's Charity: Protect Earth
Dark Sky's API is shutting down
Personal Weather Stations: Ambient Weather
Ecoping.earth - Tools to reduce your company's website carbon emissions & boost performance
Squoosh.app - a great utility for resizing images for the web
NEW POST! Creating OpenAPI from HTTP Traffic

The State of the API Address

APIs You Won't Hate — Wed, 01 Dec 2021 16:27:52 +0000

Matt and Phil are joined by Matthew Reinbold, director of API Ecosystems and Digital Transformations to discuss Postman's State of the API 2021 report, detailing various data points from around the API world from which specification people turn to, to how confident people feel deploying their APIs. They also discuss various topics around remote work, how APIs enable more remote work and what will happen in the next few years for APIs.

Notes:
Matthew on twitter: https://twitter.com/libel_vox
Postman's State of the API

Webhook can't tell you nothin'

APIs You Won't Hate — Mon, 22 Nov 2021 06:00:00 +0000

Should endpoints be named after the action, like
- /getThing
- /updateThing
- or after the resource with different HTTP verbs, like
- GET /things
- POST /things?
- What are the reasons to go with one or the other?
Async operations with REST APIs - how do you do it?
- long callbacks, short callbacks
- polling
- pubsub
What's the point of a Webhook?
"Working with Webhooks" Lorna Mitchell @ PHP Barcelona 2019 link

We're back!

APIs You Won't Hate — Thu, 23 Sep 2021 13:46:22 +0000

Matt, Mike and Phil get back together after a wild summer vacay of drinks, sand, trees and getting hit by a car while out on a bike. We catch up with Phil and Stoplights efforts to reshape API Documentation as well as responsible OSS Community Involvement.

Notes:
Matt's photography site
Stoplight Elements
Stoplight Discord
APIs You Won't Hate Community

All About the API Specifications Conference

APIs You Won't Hate — Wed, 02 Jun 2021 13:30:16 +0000

Matt is joined by Taylor (@taylor_atx) and Kin (@apievangelist) to talk about the API Specifications Conference (ASC). We talked about how the conference is shaping up, the kinds of talks they are hoping to put forward in the program, how it is organizing a conference under the Linux Foundation and how can you get involved with such an important, yet very niche, topic in our community.

Notes:

@apispecs on twitter
ASC conference website
Call For Papers
Conference Sponsorship Information

The Swagger of OpenAPI

APIs You Won't Hate — Wed, 05 May 2021 13:01:10 +0000

Sparked by this tweet, Matt and Mike have an informal chat about the whole Swagger to OpenAPI transition and why OpenAPI hasn't really been able to step away from the shadow of Swagger. We discuss ways communities members can help with pushing the OpenAPI naming over using Swagger, how SEO plays a fair bit into the whole thing and why naming things is just plain hard.

API Gateways, Service Meshes, oh my!

APIs You Won't Hate — Fri, 12 Mar 2021 14:07:49 +0000

Matt and Phil are joined by API developer Hunter Skrasek, a friend of the pod, to talk about his experiences moving their APIs from a monolith to a microservices architecture and his team is utilizing API Gateways and Service Meshes

Links:
Hunter on Twitter
API Gateway
App Service Mesh

Sunsetting your API

APIs You Won't Hate — Mon, 22 Feb 2021 17:55:46 +0000

Phil, Mike, and Matt get together for a discussion about how to safely sunset an API endpoint with the end goal being deprecation. We take a look at why its important to be overly communicative about it, what an appropriate length of time is from announcement to deprecation and how you can do it in a way that doesn't make your team or external consumers angry. We talk about the HTTP Sunset Header and the potential HTTP Deprecation Header and how those can make the process of knowing when APIs are being deprecated a lot smoother. We also looked at a few popular JS libraries and discuss how they deprecated themselves.

Show Notes
Request.js deprecation notice
Moment.js deprecation notice
IEFT HTTP Sunset Header Field RFC
IEFT HTTP Deprecation Header Draft
Facebook botching a feature deprecation

Sponsor
Interested in sponsoring this podcast to get the word out about your API product to our listeners? Drop us a line at @apisyouwonthate on twitter and lets get it set up!

Secure your APIs or why so much data was available from Parler.

APIs You Won't Hate — Wed, 20 Jan 2021 14:04:43 +0000

Phil, Mike and Matt sit down to talk about Parler and why their APIs were so great for hacktivists who wanted to make sure that the data was never lost. We talk about degraded services and circuit breakers, two big things that probably could have kept the data from being exposed as well as stripping files of EXIF data from uploaded images. We also venture into the topic of what is the role of service providers and social media going forward.

Sponsors:
Stoplight makes it possible for us to bring you this podcast while we nerd out about APIs. Check them out for their tooling around documentation with Studio, an app that makes API documentation an absolute joy to work with.

Show Notes:
Auto-incrementing IDs - Giving your data away
HTTP/REST API File Uploads
How Parler's Data Was Harvested

A transcript is currently being made and we will update the description as soon as we get them.

Developing platforms for developers - Harsha Reddy from Wayfair

APIs You Won't Hate — Fri, 18 Sep 2020 12:40:02 +0000

Harsha Reddy, a Senior Software Engineer on Internal API Platforms for Wayfair, joins Matt and Phil to talk about what its like to build tools for developers that use a myriad of languages from PHP to C# to Python and some Java thrown in for a good time. We discuss how Wayfair empowers their developers to pick the right language for a job and then what kind of tools they employ to make their day to day lives at Wayfair easier.

Links:

https://pactflow.io
https://eng.uber.com/microservice-architecture/
https://buildkite.com
Harsha on Twitter: https://twitter.com/stymied_sloth

Stoplight and Developer Mental Health

APIs You Won't Hate — Mon, 24 Aug 2020 13:02:57 +0000

Phil, Mike and Matt get together before Phil leaves the UK in search of roads he can bike on. We talk about what is coming up for new Stoplight releases and then we take a sharp pivot to talk about mental health and how it affects Matt and what he is doing to take care of himself.

Maybe GraphQL isn't so terrible? A conversation with Marc-Andre Giroux

APIs You Won't Hate — Fri, 12 Jun 2020 08:00:00 +0000

A quick note before we get started: We recorded this episode back in April of 2020 when everyone was quarantining and making bread to post on instagram. Fast forward to now, in June, American cities, and cities around the world are joining in, protesting the systemic racism that has long been an issue in our societies. While our energy and focus turned to current events, editing this episode took a seat on the backburner. That said, we have it ready… but it couldn’t be released at a worse time. Three white dudes talking about APIs while our friends in other communities are fighting injustices that have long kept them down seems to be a bit tone deaf, and we know that, recognize that and commit ourselves to being involved. There are a lot of conversations we want to have around this topic both in the API world, and outside of it. We don’t want this episode to take away from the discussions going on around such important and heavy topics, but we hope this can serve as a way for you to take a break while you travel to and from a protest. If you are going to protest please be safe, drink as much water as you can to stay hydrated in the heat and know that things are changing for the better. To all the Black API developers out there: we see you, we're fighting with you, and we want you to know that we're listening. From all of us at APIs You Won't Hate: Black lives matter.

Recorded back in April, Matt and Phil are joined by Marc-Andre Giroux to talk about the APIs he works on at Github and his fascination of GraphQL. Marc-Andre recently released a book titled "Production Ready GraphQL" where he talks about schema design, tooling, architecture and more. We take a dive into knowing when GraphQL is the right tool for the job, versus when to use REST and talk a little about the whole quarantine thing that was happening.

Twitter: https://twitter.com/__xuorig__
Book: Production Ready GraphQL
APIs You Wont Hate Jobs Board: https://apisyouwonthate.com/jobs
APIs You Wont Hate Slack: https://apisyouwonthate.com/community

The API Handyman Cometh

APIs You Won't Hate — Tue, 24 Mar 2020 23:00:00 +0000

Phil and Matt, both in a loose definition of isolation, find time to talk to Arnaud Lauret (https://twitter.com/apihandyman) and talk about API Design and Review. We discuss why you should spend time designing and reviewing your API and the process of reviewing API Designs before the code is written. We also ask Arnaud what he looks for while reviewing, the tools he uses to review API design docs and then Phil starts dreaming up what the ideal API Review tooling looks like.

We also talk about life in quarantine, as France completely shut down and how Phil made it back in time to England before the lock downs took place.

Links:

https://twitter.com/apihandyman - Arnaud's Twitter
https://bit.ly/designwebapis - The Design of Web APIs by Arnaud Lauret
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Design_of_Everyday_Things - The Design of Everyday Things by Don Norman
http://apihandyman.io/ - Arnaud's blog
http://apistylebook.com/ - API Stylebook, a collection of API style guides

200 OK Boomer

APIs You Won't Hate — Fri, 14 Feb 2020 07:00:00 +0000

Phil, Mike and Matt talk about Matt's adventures with APIs returning 200 OK while having an error message in the body, causing extra work and frustration. We look at why this is a common thing in API development and what we can do to help people utilize the codes that are there instead of relying on 200 OK.

Mike brings up Microsoft and what they are doing with their push to not only go Carbon Neutral but also Carbon Negative to make up for their past. We wonder what that will look like, and also bring up what an individual person with a developers salary can do to start helping out more since we (developers) can generally afford it over a lot of other people.

Keeping on the environment, we also take look at some things a developer can do with code to help the environment, particularly around caching and responses.

Cheers!

Ask Us Anything!

APIs You Won't Hate — Wed, 29 Jan 2020 09:00:00 +0000

A while ago, we put out a call to Twitter to invite listeners to send us their questions and we would answer them. We received 4 really good questions, covering topics like supporting content negotiation, how to craft and and define an SLA for your API, why companies seem to disregard standards when it comes to their API SDKs and should you version hypermedia.

GraphQL Monitoring and how to travel via Train

Phil Sturgeon — Wed, 25 Sep 2019 13:14:31 +0000

In this episode, Phil talks about how his trip across the United States via train went. We also talk about how to monitor APIs and what is the best APM solution for monitoring GraphQL endpoints. We also talk about the progress being made by the Stoplight team with both their tooling around Async APIs and also work being done on Studio.

Links:

Article: GraphQL Performance Monitoring Is Hard

Why GraphQL Performance Monitoring is hard

Phil's repo of companies working to help save the earth

Awesome Earth --- Support this podcast:

https://anchor.fm/apisyouwonthate/support

New OSS Open API Tooling Abound!

Phil Sturgeon — Mon, 12 Aug 2019 11:49:00 +0000

Last time on APIs You Won't Hate, we laid the ground work for this podcast. This time (after a failed attempt when Phil didn't press record) Mike, Phil, and Matt talk about whats new with Stoplight, how front end developers like Mike can use the Stoplight suite of OSS products to make Front End Development better, and where they are with the books!

APIs and Bikes Go Together Great

Phil Sturgeon — Sun, 23 Jun 2019 14:40:00 +0000

Welcome to our new podcast! Phil Sturgeon (@philsturgeon), Mike Bifulco (@irreverentmike) and Matt Trask (@matthewtrask) get started with the first episode where we talk about bikes, APIs and our goal for the podcast. We break down Phil's adventures in Europe, how his new books are going with the help of Mike, and some other nonsense.

Find us in the APIs You Wont Hate slack for questions, help, mentoring or other things!