OpenAPI makes it really easy to generate documentation for your API. There are a
number of open source and paid solutions that make it easy to generate
documentation for your API. To determine the best solution for your needs, we
researched and compared the best open source and paid OpenAPI documentation
generators.
At the end, we give our opinion on which solution is best for you depending on
your requirements and current setup.
Konfig offers numerous benefits when generating SDKs from OpenAPI compared to
utilizing an open-source library or crafting them manually. These benefits
significantly impact your engineers and business in a positive manner. In this
article, we will outline these crucial advantages.
GitHub Copilot has recently taken the software engineering world by storm,
hitting a milestone of $100M ARR. This achievement alone qualifies it to be a
publicly listed company. Meanwhile, funding continues to flow into code-focused
LLM use cases.
Serverless computing will become the default computing paradigm of the Cloud Era, largely
replacing serverful computing and thereby bringing closure to the Client-Server Era.
Is it all hype? Is there real 100% objective merit to it? Where
does serverless excel? Where do the trade-offs make sense?
To understand how developers are receiving serverless, I went to where
developers live: Reddit, Twitter, Hacker News, and YouTube. I parsed 1,000s of
discussions and synthesized my findings in this article, striving to present
only thought-provoking opinions.
Funnel for gathering through-provoking opinions
Next, I transcribed these discussions onto a whiteboard, organizing them into
"Pro Serverless," "Anti Serverless", or "Neutral" categories, and then
clustering them into distinct opinions. Each section in this post showcases
an opinion while referencing pertinent discussions.
Ask any developer: do you prefer GraphQL or REST? This often leads to
opinionated conversations, sometimes even devolving into vulgar opinions rather
than objective facts.
To delve into the GraphQL vs. REST debate, I scoured platforms where developers
frequently discuss such matters: YouTube, Reddit, Twitter, and Hacker News. I
parsed 1,000s of discussions and synthesized my findings in this article,
striving to present only thought-provoking perspectives.
Funnel for gathering through-provoking perspectives
Next, I transcribed these discussions onto a whiteboard, organizing them into
"Pro GraphQL," "Pro REST," or "Neutral" categories, and then clustering them
into distinct perspectives. Each section in this post showcases a perspective
while referencing pertinent discussions. To conclude, I highlight blog posts
from GitHub and Shopify that serve as informative case studies in this ongoing
debate.
Imagine you are tasked to write 417,823 lines of code in 6 different
languages.
What if there was a way to slash that development effort significantly with just
a fraction of the effort? Introducing code generation, where a few high-level
instructions can do the work for you. In this blog post, we'll dive into the
superpower of code generation, uncovering its presence from early programming to
modern-day AI assistants.
What exactly is an OpenAPI? In this article, we'll cover the problem that
OpenAPI solves and explore its importance in modern software architecture.
As software systems become more interconnected, OpenAPI has emerged as a vital
tool for promoting collaboration and enabling seamless integration between
different applications. Today large API-first companies like
Stripe and
Plaid use OpenAPI so it's no surprise
that OpenAPI is finding widespread adoption.
Google trend on "openapi" from 1/1/2017 to 7/10/2023
Plaid has a REST API with 215 operations, 1346 schemas, and 215 parameters.
SnapTrade has a
REST API with 91 operations, 125 schemas, and 183 parameters.
Twilio has a
REST API with 199 operations, 152 schemas, and 874 parameters.
The complexity of these APIs can be daunting for developers who are under a time
pressure to integrate an API and frustrating for API companies because
onboarding is time consuming. Developers are required to parse tons of
documentation and code while API companies must provide continuous support for a
successful partnership. To make matters worse, developers can be using a
programming language that nobody at the API company knows. To alleviate the
pain, best-in-class API companies publish SDKs to accelerate the integration
process.