Building Software Better: API Lifecycle Management for Developers
summary
Argues that OpenAPI descriptions drive both product thinking and developer tooling, showing concrete tools: spectral and Vacuum for linting, mocking servers for UI work, fuzzing tests that find boundary crashes, and the greasing concept to avoid brittle clients. Presents Aro workflows (two weeks old, minimal tooling) as a claimable next step. Uses Walgreens photo-printing and OAuth-style audience examples to show APIs creating indirect revenue and platform engineering to scale API lifecycles.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Intro
- 2:47Agenda
- 4:23API products
- 20:15API Descriptions & OpenAPI
- 30:31Building the right API
- 37:48Building the API right
- 46:23Build better products better
- 48:14Outro
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