Helping Your Downstream Collaborators

Let's talk about ways to make life easier for downstream developers, be they front-end or dependent back-end people. Whether you have a bunch of front-end folks driven from your monolith, or you live in service-mesh land with dozens of microservices, the people downstream from you have to use your output to make their output. They are, in fact, a kind of customer. We've talked at some length about the Made, the Making, and the Makers, and how the trade is normally over-obsessed with the Made, and under-emphasizes both Making and Makers. Here are some ideas, no particular order, for ways we can make our small part of the system be useful not just to the end-user, but to the other makers. After all, tho they don't pay for the privilege, they are, per call, heavier users of our service than any others.

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