APIs You Won't Hate
45 episodes - English - Latest episode: 14 days ago - ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsA no-nonsense (well, some-nonsense) podcast about API design & development, new features in the world of HTTP, service-orientated architecture, microservices, and probably bikes.
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APIs for websites that don't have APIs, with Suchintan Singh from Skyvern
April 05, 2024 11:35 - 38 minutes - 35.4 MBSkyvern 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
April 01, 2024 02:17 - 32 minutes - 44.7 MBRobin 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. Nango.dev - Open, Unified API Nango on GitHub Robin Guldener on LinkedIn Creators & Guests Mike Bifulco - Host Robin Guldener - Guest
Building a developer brand and simple API for email, with Zeno Rocha from Resend
March 15, 2024 15:33 - 42 minutes - 38.5 MBZeno'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
March 01, 2024 13:28 - 55 minutes - 51.2 MBQuobix - 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...
Is your API able? With Allan Knabe from Apiable
February 14, 2024 13:41 - 34 minutes - 31.2 MBApiable 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. Allan Knabe Apiable - Every API is a business Careers at Apiable Pirate Weather
Redocly, OpenAPI, and learning to Moonwalk with Lorna Jane Mitchell
January 22, 2024 06:00 - 48 minutes - 44.8 MBLorna 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
January 15, 2024 12:44 - 32 minutes - 29.7 MBMicrosoft Kiota on GitHub Darrel Miller Vincent Biret
Catching up with Danny Sheridan from Fern
November 15, 2023 16:01 - 33 minutes - 30.6 MBMike 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/ Amazon Smithy Palantir Conjure Fern OSS on GitHub Cohere APIs You Won't Hate: Make your API Idempotent Fern Careers
An API to abstract everything, with Roy Pereira from Unified.to
July 13, 2023 12:03 - 1 hour - 84 MBUnified.to - one API to integrate them all twitter: @unified_api linkedin: Unified-to Roy Pereira online: [email protected] @roymap on twitter linkedin Use Promo code APISYOUWONTHATE2023 for 3 free months on Unified's Startup Plan
Creating world-class API devX with Sagar Batchu from Speakeasy
July 01, 2023 13:41 - 34 minutes - 31.6 MBSagar 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
June 12, 2023 06:00 - 44 minutes - 61.5 MBOpenCage: 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
June 02, 2023 12:56 - 46 minutes - 63.8 MBPermit.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
May 08, 2023 11:59 - 27 minutes - 25.3 MBFastgen - 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: [email protected] 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
April 19, 2023 06:00 - 40 minutes - 37.2 MBPhil 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: @[email protected] 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...
Learnin' about webhooks, with Tom Haconen from Svix
April 05, 2023 07:59 - 28 minutes - 26.4 MBSvix - 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 - [email protected] svix.com/slack Creators & Guests Mike Bifulco - Host Tom Hacohen - Guest
Jazzed about API client library codegen, with Danny Sheridan from Fern
March 22, 2023 17:33 - 33 minutes - 30.4 MBFern - 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 [email protected] buf.build - protobuf codegen utility - https://buf.build/ Creators & Guests Mike Bifulco - Host Danny Sheridan - Guest
Stigg: Infrastructure for pricing models with Anton Zagrebelny
March 07, 2023 13:17 - 32 minutes - 29.9 MBStigg: https://www.stigg.io/ - API-first pricing and packaging Stigg is Hiring: https://jobs.lever.co/stigg Find Anton Zagrebelny onlin: Linkedin - GitHub — 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
February 16, 2023 15:55 - 55 minutes - 50.6 MBOur 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
January 23, 2023 07:00 - 31 minutes - 28.8 MBStack Aid - https://www.stackaid.us/ Dudley Carr - @[email protected]
Note-taking tools for devs, with Drew White from Stashpad
January 09, 2023 07:00 - 31 minutes - 29.1 MBStashpad - https://stashpad.com/ Stashpad Discord - https://discord.gg/ScxPxcN9fK Drew White - @drucial
API Environmentalism with Alexander Karan of Climate Clever
August 02, 2022 02:10 - 41 minutes - 37.7 MBMike 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_)...
An API for APIs with Gil Feig from Merge
June 01, 2022 22:54 - 34 minutes - 31.2 MBOn this episode, Mike talks to cofounder of Merge, Gil Feig, about building a service that integrates with many APIs. Find Merge at https://merge.dev Gil Feig @GilFeig Merge is Hiring! 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
April 30, 2022 16:33 - 42 minutes - 38.7 MBMike 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
March 26, 2022 15:59 - 32 minutes - 29.7 MBMike 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
February 28, 2022 15:46 - 33 minutes - 30.5 MBLinks from today's show Phil's reforestation charity Protect Earth Posts on APIs You Won't Hate Contract Testing a Laravel API with OpenAPI Creating OpenAPI from HTTP Traffic API Tooling Akita https://www.akitasoftware.com/ Optic https://www.useoptic.com/ Serverless functions in JAMstack frameworks Remix.run API routes Next.js API routes Gatsby serverless showcase 11ty serverless Thank you so much to our sponsors: Lob: https://lob.com/careers Treblle: https://treblle...
Seeing the forest and the trees in 2022
January 03, 2022 06:00 - 55 minutes - 25.4 MBThanks 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
December 01, 2021 16:27 - 48 minutes - 22.3 MBMatt 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/...
Webhook can't tell you nothin'
November 22, 2021 06:00 - 39 minutes - 36.3 MBShould 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!
September 23, 2021 13:46 - 33 minutes - 31 MBMatt, 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
June 02, 2021 13:30 - 48 minutes - 67.1 MBMatt 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 Info...
The Swagger of OpenAPI
May 05, 2021 13:01 - 30 minutes - 41.8 MBSparked 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!
March 12, 2021 14:07 - 51 minutes - 70.1 MBMatt 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
February 22, 2021 17:55 - 44 minutes - 61.5 MBPhil, 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...
Secure your APIs or why so much data was available from Parler.
January 20, 2021 14:04 - 41 minutes - 37.9 MBPhil, 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 f...
Developing platforms for developers - Harsha Reddy from Wayfair
September 18, 2020 12:40 - 44 minutes - 61.7 MBHarsha 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. Sponsors: Stoplight makes it possible for us to bring y...
Stoplight and Developer Mental Health
August 24, 2020 13:02 - 35 minutes - 48.5 MBPhil, 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. 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...
Maybe GraphQL isn't so terrible? A conversation with Marc-Andre Giroux
June 12, 2020 08:00 - 49 minutes - 68.6 MBA 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...
The API Handyman Cometh
March 24, 2020 23:00 - 49 minutes - 45.7 MBPhil 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 als...
200 OK Boomer
February 14, 2020 07:00 - 49 minutes - 45.8 MBPhil, 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...
Ask Us Anything!
January 29, 2020 09:00 - 41 minutes - 37.7 MBA 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. Sponsors: Stoplight makes it possible for us to bring you this podcast while we nerd out about APIs. Check them out for the...
GraphQL Monitoring and how to travel via Train
September 25, 2019 13:14 - 45 minutes - 42.1 MBIn 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. 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 docume...
Episode 2: New OSS Open API Tooling Abound!
August 12, 2019 11:49 - 36 minutes - 33.4 MBLast 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.io, 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! Notes: https://stoplight.io https://github.com/stoplight https://twitter.com/philsturgeon https://twitter.com/irreverentmike https://twi...
New OSS Open API Tooling Abound!
August 12, 2019 11:49 - 36 minutes - 33.4 MBLast 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! Sponsors: Stoplight makes it possible for us to bring you this podcast while we nerd out about APIs. Check them out for their tooling a...
Episode 1: APIs and Bikes Go Together Great
June 23, 2019 14:40 - 33 minutes - 30.6 MBWelcome 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! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/apisyouwonthate/support
APIs and Bikes Go Together Great
June 23, 2019 14:40 - 33 minutes - 30.7 MBWelcome 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! Sponsors: Stoplight makes it possible for us to bring you t...