Microsoft’s Concise API Design Language has a new name and a larger role to play in building REST, OpenAPI, gRPC, and other services. Some time ago I wrote about the work Microsoft was doing to ...

In the last decade, every web application developer has become an API designer. But most organizations do not think of developers as API designers, nor do they think about APIs as a product of design ...

Unlock the full InfoQ experience by logging in! Stay updated with your favorite authors and topics, engage with content, and download exclusive resources. Birgitta Böckeler, Distinguished Engineer at ...

Daniel Jacobson (Twitter | LinkedIn), is currently director of engineering for the Netflix API. Prior to Netflix, Daniel ran application development for NPR where, among other things, he created the ...

Latest Version of Popular Open Source Swagger UI and Editor to Launch by SmartBear at IBM InterConnect – March 19-23, 2017 – Las Vegas SOMERVILLE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--SmartBear Software, the ...

You can't "grow" a fluent API; you need to understand how developers will need (and expect) to use your API. Here's a case study of what the design process for a fluent API looks like. In my previous ...

In a very real way, APIs are technology’s bridges. And like bridges in the physical world, these digital bridges must be engineered carefully to function and last as intended. Designing an API that’s ...

Unlock the full InfoQ experience by logging in! Stay updated with your favorite authors and topics, engage with content, and download exclusive resources. Erik Steiger discusses the operational pain ...