Jeff ErnstFriedman

The OpenAPI Initiative is proud announce our partnership with Stoplight as a part of the latest class of new members.

In 2015, Stoplight took notice of the gathering community and the potential for the OpenAPI Specification (OAS) as the industry standard, and started building its platform around the specification as the single source of truth for describing APIs.  Stoplight has come a long way since then, and OAS continues to be impress under the stewardship of OAI. Stoplight looks forward to the future of OAS as the standard for describing APIs, and the exciting opportunities it fosters.

At Stoplight, everything begins with your specification. Once you have created an OpenAPI specification in Stoplight, you can leverage the spec to drive your entire API development process. Rapidly create contract tests, set up mock servers, publish API documentation with a click, and much more.

OAS in the Wild

Stoplight is taking its show on the road and are traveling around the US to talk about the OAS. You’ll find them at several conferences over the next few months. Come say hello and enjoy a talk given by their esteemed community engineer, Taylor Barnett.

Upcoming Talks

• DevXcon, San Francisco, CA (June 4-5, 2018): Going to Infinity and Beyond Documentation with OpenAPI
• OSCON, Portland, OR (July 18-19, 2018): Better API Testing with the OpenAPI Specification

Upcoming Conferences

• Nordic APIs Austin API Summit, Austin, TX (June 11-13, 2018)

We’re proud to announce that Assertible – API and website performance testing and uptime monitoring company – as the latest member to join to OpenAPI Initiative.

Assertible enables businesses of all shapes and sizes to confidently monitor the quality and stability of their APIs, allowing for faster iteration and development cycles without compromising correctness in the applications. Utilizing the OpenAPI Spec has proven to be a big advantage for teams by providing a way to communicate the intent, functionality, and purpose of their APIs from documentation, to development, and testing.

“Today, I’m proud to announce that Assertible is the latest member to join to OpenAPI Initiative. We’re thrilled to be a part of the initiative and join the ranks of great teams working to pave the way for the future of the internet,” Assertible’s CTO Cody Reichert says. “As developers, testers, and business-minded people ourselves, we plan on sharing our insight and experience with the OpenAPI Initiative team, and importantly, representing a segment of the market that is often overlooked: testing and quality assurance.”

After working with hundreds of teams and thousands of developers, it became apparent to the Assertible team that adopting OpenAPI is advantageous for multiple reasons. By joining the OpenAPI Initiative, they hope to both give back to the API community as well as learn about more use-cases creating a higher quality web for the future to enjoy.

“At Assertible, we view the OpenAPI Initiative as a critical component in creating and sustaining a coherent ecosystem that will allow developers, businesses, and the general population to benefit, advance, and utilize the backbone of the web: APIs. Not only does the OAI provide a foundation for rapidly creating and integrating otherwise disparate services, it also advances the entire community, from creators to consumers, by providing a unified starting point for discussion and future development, which has proven worthwhile and unfettered by rapid changes in technologies. We’re excited to be a part of pushing the industry forward. Reichert says.

Assertible and OpenAPI

Assertible is pleased to announce it has added support for OpenAPI v3 and has been working with the OAS and its predecessor the Swagger Spec since the company’s inception in 2015. Currently, it’s possible to create a fully automated test suite from a simple, or complex, specification.

We plan on continuing to extend our support to include support for features – like JSON Schema, examples, and more – to pave the way for 100% automated test coverage using OpenAPI. If you have any thoughts or requests for extending OAS support in Assertible, we’d love to hear them.

Thoughts? Let’s talk!

Want to talk about how Assertible and OpenAPI can improve you development cycle, or have any feedback on us joining the OpenAPI Initiative? We’d love to hear from you:

– Reach out on Twitter, or
– Send us an email

API management provider aapi joins as the 30th member of the Open API Initiative to coincide with the debut of their API portal announced on Nov. 28.

“APIs are reforming the digital landscape and OAI is enabling this transformation through the standardization of API language,” aapi CTO Timothy Arvanites said. Easing the connectivity of systems, the OpenAPI Specification is the foundation for the interoperability and simplicity of the aapi platform. We are proud supporters of open source, the Linux Foundation, and especially OAI and look to a world where APIs are made easy.”

aapi hosts an open library of over 3000 OpenAPI/Swagger files and its platform is designed to streamline API development and management processes by reducing costs, complexity and API learning curves. aapi was founded by Craig Lund, Timothy Arvanites, and Robert Phillips. Lund serves as chairman and CEO, while Arvanites is the Chief Technology Officer.

The partnership makes it easier for eBay developers to integrate with our RESTful public APIs and evolve their buying and selling experiences on our platforms.

For more than 20 years, eBay has been a leading marketplace, connecting shoppers to their perfect item from more than 1.1 billion listings on our platform and providing opportunities for sellers to grow their businesses. Today, I’m proud to announce our membership in the Open API Initiative (OAI). This partnership will focus on the OpenAPI Specification, making it easier and faster for eBay developers to integrate with eBay’s RESTful public APIs as we evolve the buying and selling experience on eBay. This opportunity leverages technology to make it easier for our developer ecosystem to create new eBay experiences.

The OAI is an open source project under the Linux Foundation. These software projects are independently funded and are geared toward harnessing the power of collaborative development across industries and ecosystems. OAI is the most popular open source framework for defining and creating RESTful APIs, with tens of thousands of developers using the tools.

As a member of OAI, we are continuing to tap into our developer ecosystem and grow eBay’s APIs, by expanding our developer community and encouraging building to creating a more integrated platform and shopping and selling seamless experiences on eBay. Earlier this year, we we kicked off eBay Connect with seven developer events across the world to give external developers insights into our platform and encourage their innovation. And last year, eBay Developers Program revamped our API platform with 13 new standards-based APIs.

This partnership and our new APIs make it simpler for our developers and sellers to quickly integrate with eBay and onboard all their inventory—part of our promise to deliver the most powerful commerce platform to our seller and developer partners so they can build sophisticated integrations to manage all end-to-end selling operations on eBay and easily scale their business.

Gail Frederick

eBay representative on the Business Governing Board

Gail Frederick is Senior Director of Developer Ecosystem and Services at eBay, where she strives to disrupt commerce with innovative ideas to create more powerful buying and selling experiences on eBay.