Good API documentation makes it easy for developers to get started with an API by providing all the necessary information upfront. This saves developers from having to go through trial-and-error to figure out how an API works. Ultimately, APIs that are well-documented have a much better developer experience, increased adoption rates, and better collaboration between […]
What the heck is “Developer Experience in 2023?” This is one of the questions we ask our guests (of course more politely) to see what they think. It’s a fairly new term and one with competing definitions depending on the group using it.Our guests are from leading technology companies and they join me, Sid Maestre, […]
In this article, we’ll introduce you to sdks.io, why we built it, and our hopes for the future. What are SDKs SDKs (software development kits) are collections of software development tools and resources that allow developers to create applications for a specific platform or operating system. SDKs can include libraries, sample code, and documentation, among […]
Creating an API is fundamental. Everybody’s doing it. What sets an API apart in a crowded API market is how easy it is to integrate into a developer’s application stack. In this blog, I will be outlining ways to reduce API consumption time. API Consumption Journey There are three distinct phases that an API consumer goes […]
Developer portals are the hub to explore and consume APIs. And it pays to keep the developer’s experience a top priority when building and enhancing your developer portal. This blog is dedicated to our customers and their focus on providing a premium developer experience to their API consumers. Our customers make us who we are, […]
API providers aiming for great developer adoption provide SDKs. These SDKs translate the API specification into client code. But that code is not enough to guarantee good developer experience. Why? Because an API specification is not built to stand failures in production. Eventually, manual effort is required to add layers on top of the SDK […]
Developer experience (DevEx) is no longer an unknown term for people in the tech industry. The best way to define DevEx is user experience but for building with the system, not just using it. APIs and DevEx go hand in hand as the primary consumers of an API are developers. Why should DevEx matter with […]
In the API world, the vast majority of external services will be composed of numerous microservices internally. While trying to hide this complexity from API consumers, we must deal with combining the various microservices’ specifications into a single unified interface. In this how-to, I will illustrate how easy it is to automatically merge API specification […]
If you are reading this, then you too have been looking to create something as heavy as an SDK in less than a minute. Well, let’s find out how it can be done. Building an SDK from scratch To build an SDK, we have a few concrete steps: Design of the SDK Implement the design […]
