Cisco : Learn How to Make Great APIs the Easy Way at DevNet Create
October 11, 2021 at 08:32 pm EDT
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Here at DevNet, we really love APIs. (Duh!) And while we hope you enjoy consuming Cisco's APIs and making awesome integrated solutions with us, if you've ever worked on a software project of any complexity you've likely been faced with creating your own private/internal (or even public facing) APIs.
Putting together a few GET requests and an HTTP listener for a client/server app you control is fairly easy. However, once you start adding components, users, external consumers, and complexity… well, keeping that API stable-yet-flexible (while keeping Q/A, documentation, native libraries, etc. in sync) can become tricky very quickly!
API 'design-first' philosophy (core to the OpenAPI project) aims to solve some of those headaches by providing specs for formally defining a REST API in detail, along with tools and automation to help you use that definition to automatically generate related assets downstream. Think: beautiful interactive docs, working mock servers, server-side implementation stubs and complete native language client libraries all 'compiled' automatically.
If this sounds interesting (and as a software dev, believe me it is!), please join me at Cisco's DevNet Create virtual event for my session, "API Design-First - Not Just Another Pretty Interface." In this session we will:
talk about API design-first philosophy,
demo sample API definition and asset-generation tools from the OpenAPI Specification project
touch on how to design not just easy-to-build APIs, but easy-to-use APIs.
Register now to attend DevNet Create
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