I never thought I would say: "no worries, I have ink in my pen for everyone" at an API conference: #apidaysParis was a blast! But not only because of a book signing session with a je-ne-sais-quoi of a black Friday. Here's a quick recap and my thoughts after the event. #api
The event was great, the venue was great, the sessions were great, and the people were great. I was especially super happy to meet students at such a conference (and not surprised to learn that most of them do not actually learn to design APIs. if you're an engineering/software university/school, I know someone who can fill this gap ).
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I'm quite happy to see that I'm not the only one thinking that API governance is an enabler and goes far beyond guidelines and linting. Standardization is important, but skilling and making people's lives easier are the new challenges.
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Do-it-all API gateway-saurus (© Mark O'Neill) are dying species leaving room for more specialized tools. More focused and decentralized API gateways (bye-bye hyper centralized ESBs-like gateways) need tools around them. Also, I feel that third-party API management and governance is an area to explore more.
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It's still (unfortunately) important to remind that it's OpenAPI (3) and not Swagger (2) anymore. (Here's a recap and video of my "OpenAPI does what Swagger don't" session https://blog.postman.com/openapi-does-what-swagger-dont/)
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10 years of API Days and video adapters are still an issue (lowering the Macbook output refresh rate may solve problems).
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They were so many great sessions, but here are my top 3 I recommend watching as soon as they're available:
- "60 years of APIs" by @mamund
- "The State of API industry" by Mark O'Neill
- "API Governance 3.0 - A collaborative foundation for the next 10 years of APIs" by Patrick Brosse and Mark Weitzel
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@arnaudlauret thanks for the shout out. Your #openAPI talk was great, too.
Cheers and here we go for 2023!