Developer Tools Game-Changers That Will Save You Hours
summary
Panelists compare concrete tools and features and argue what actually saves time: support for async API support (Kafka) for testing, a free embeddable docs component to drop into existing sites, and Postman’s API-entity versioned asset model for linking tests/environments to API versions. They demo integrations like Pipedream and ngrok, recommend Optic for diffing behavior instead of schema noise, and push governance plus design‑first workflows as the real productivity win versus endless OpenAPI complexity.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Introduction and welcome
- 1:46Introducing the panelists
- 4:16What's new at each company
- 10:52Favorite new developer tools
- 15:46Trends in API tooling
- 20:16API specifications and governance
- 24:49Controversy around OpenAPI
- 33:59Is GraphQL the future?
- 37:33Internal vs external APIs
- 41:09Closing remarks and advice
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