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 […]
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 […]
Working with APIs, I come across a lot of interesting feature requests. Among those, oneOf was something that a lot of the developers want, but scarce information is found on the topic. This blog will take you through my journey of how I acquainted myself with the role of “oneOf” in OpenAPI specifications. What is […]
Last week, we wrapped our API Developer Experience Meetup in San Francisco. Special thanks to Ashish Shubham from ThoughtSpot for sharing how to provide a good developer experience for SDKs, and to Joyce Lin for having us over at the new Postman office. The meetup included two talks from Adeel Ali, co-founder of APIMatic, and […]
While providing API documentation and SDKs with your API makes developer onboarding faster, it can be a challenge to keep up when your API is constantly evolving. You need to manually publish the documentation or SDKs on every API update, which can be a time consuming and repetitive task, prone to delays in releases. To […]
You create a great API and invest resources, time, and energy into it, but it turns out it’s not being adopted as much as you had anticipated. While your first instinct might be to investigate the API, there could be other factors at play here.. For starters, is your API documentation in-sync with the API? […]
