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OpenAPI Initiative Newsletter – April 2025
Welcome to the OpenAPI Initiative (OAI) April 2025 newsletter! Our newsletter brings you initiative news, details of new versions of our specifications, and information on events and educational resources. Initiative…
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OpenAPI Community Hero – Phil Sturgeon
It time for our next Community Hero, and this time we talk to Leviathan of the API world Phil Sturgeon. Phil is author of Build APIs You Won’t Hate, ex-WeWork…
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GitBook joins the OpenAPI Initiative!
The OpenAPI Initiative has a new member! We are pleased to welcome GitBook to the OpenAPI family. GitBook provides tools for building great documentation that developers love, and leverages the…
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OpenAPI Initiative Newsletter – February 2025
Welcome to the OpenAPI Initiative (OAI) February 2025 newsletter, the first of this year! Our newsletter brings you initiative news, details of new versions of our specifications, and information on…
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OpenAPI Community Heroes – Erik Wilde
Welcome to the next installment of our series of posts on people we consider to be heroes of the OpenAPI community. These people go above and beyond to contribute to…
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Announcing Arazzo Specification version 1.0.1
In 2024, the OpenAPI Initiative set a high bar for activity with the release of new specifications like Arazzo 1.0.0 and Overlay 1.0.0, along with two important patch versions of…
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Evolving OpenAPI in a Multi-Specification Initiative
When people say “OpenAPI”, they are usually referring to the OpenAPI Specification, the API description language that helps us publish and consume APIs. The OpenAPI Specification is at the center…
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AVAP Framework has just joined OpenAPI as a member!
AVAP Framework has just joined OpenAPI as a member! We are thrilled to announce that AVAP Framework, a cutting-edge API Lifecycle Management Platform, has officially joined the OpenAPI Initiative (OAI)…
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OpenAPI Community Heroes – Karen Etheridge
Welcome to the next installment of our series of posts on people we consider to be heroes of the OpenAPI community. These people go above and beyond to contribute to…
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OpenAPI Initiative Newsletter – October 2024
Welcome to the OpenAPI Initiative October 2024 Newsletter, our regular round-up of the latest stories from across the OpenAPI landscape. Initiative News Hot on the heels of the Arazzo Specification…
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Announcing OpenAPI Specification versions 3.0.4 and 3.1.1
Hot on the heels of our Overlay 1.0.0 announcement, the OpenAPI Initiative is pleased to announce a patch release of the 3.0 and 3.1 OpenAPI Specifications! In patch releases, no…
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Announcing OpenAPI Overlay Specification 1.0.0
The OpenAPI Initiative is proud to announce the publication of the OpenAPI Overlay Specification version 1.0.0. The Overlay Specification is an auxiliary standard to complement the existing OpenAPI specification. An…
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OpenAPI Initiative Newsletter – August 2024
Welcome to the OpenAPI Initiative August 2024 Newsletter, our regular round-up of the latest stories from across the OpenAPI landscape. It’s vacation season in the northern hemisphere, but there is…
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OpenAPI Initiative Newsletter – April 2024
Welcome to the OpenAPI Initiative (OAI) April 2024 Newsletter! This is our new, regular round-up of the latest stories from across the OpenAPI landscape. We aim to keep you in…
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Apidays Paris 2023 – with an OpenAPI Track – is Coming This December!
The OpenAPI Specification is an integral part of software development and delivery of APIs. In 2023, we have been joining multiple API related conferences to connect directly with API users…
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Join Us at apidays Australia 2023 for a Full-Day OAI Track
The OpenAPI Specification is an integral part of development and delivery of APIs. In 2023, we are joining multiple API related conferences to connect directly with API users and enthusiasts…
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Case Study: Using the OpenAPI Specification for Integrating SaaS Applications and Scaling Up to Hundreds of API Providers
Guest blog post by Donald Atha, Software Architect, BetterCloud One of the biggest challenges facing IT teams today is the increase in tedious and repetitive tasks driven by the explosive…
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WireMock, Venture Funded Open Source API Mock Platform, Joins OpenAPI Initiative as New Member
The OpenAPI Initiative, the consortium of forward-looking industry experts focused on creating, evolving, and promoting the OpenAPI Specification (OAS), is announcing today that WireMock has joined as a new member…
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WebAssembly and Career Networking at Gluecon
Guest Author: Tony Blank Tony is an experienced software developer with an interest in web design, web marketing, customer integration, and software IT including networking, data center management, and sysadmin…
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Tools That Support OpenAPI Specification
Over the last 18 months we’ve been looking at how we can better capture data on the OpenAPI ecosystem with particular focus on tooling – what tool makers are doing…
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Why the Largest Geospatial Organization in the World Uses the OpenAPI Specification
The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) recently announced that OGC API – Tiles was adopted as an official OGC Standard. The OGC is a collective problem-solving community of experts from more…
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Bump.sh, API Contract Management Platform, Joins the OpenAPI Initiative
The OpenAPI Initiative, the consortium of forward-looking industry experts focused on evolving and implementing the OpenAPI Specification (OAS), is announcing that Bump.sh has joined as a new member. Welcome! Bump.sh…
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Noname Security, API Security Company, Joins the OpenAPI Initiative
The OpenAPI Initiative is announcing today that Noname Security has joined as a new member. Welcome! According to recent research commissioned by Noname Security, API Security Trends in 2022, 76%…
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ASC 2022 in San Francisco 🌉 by the Numbers
This year’s API Specifications Conference (ASC), organized by the OpenAPI Initiative, set a record for submissions for talks, won the CHAOSS Gold badge for Diversity and Inclusion, was rated excellent…
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First Time Ever! OpenAPI Track at APIDays Paris – Join us!
The OpenAPI Initiative is hosting an OpenAPI track at APIDays Paris on December 14, 2022. To register, see: https://www.apidays.global/paris agenda As a member of the OAI community, you can register…
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Cisco Joins OpenAPI Initiative
OpenAPI Initiative continues strong pace of membership growth; 45 current members include Atlassian, Bloomberg, eBay, Google, IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, Postman, SAP, SmartBear, and many more SAN FRANCISCO – October 18…
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ASC 2022 Community Partner Sponsorships Free to Members!
Join us at The API Specifications Conference (ASC) this September 19-21 in South San Francisco! ASC 2022 is a place for API practitioners to come together and discuss the evolution…
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JOIN US AT ASC 2022!
The API Specification Conference – ASC 2022 – is being held in person from September 19 – 21 in South San Francisco! OpenAPI Initiative’s API Specifications Conference (ASC) is a…
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APIIDA, Delivering Automated API Management Solutions, Joins the OpenAPI Initiative
The OpenAPI Initiative, the consortium of forward-looking industry experts focused on evolving and implementing the OpenAPI Specification (OAS), is welcoming APIIDA as a new member. APIIDA provides an API management…
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Karate Labs, Testing Automation Framework, is Joining the OpenAPI Initiative
The OpenAPI Initiative, the consortium of forward-looking industry experts focused on evolving and implementing the OpenAPI Specification (OAS), is announcing that Karate Labs has joined as a new member. 5900…
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OpenAPI v3.1 Resources for Tooling Developers
This post is authored by Phil Sturgeon, Green Tech consultant at Green Turtle, and Chairperson, Protect Earth. If you’d like to donate to Phil’s charity of choice, please see Protect…
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OpenAPI Welcomes New Member Optic
The OpenAPI Initiative, the consortium of forward-looking industry experts focused on evolving and implementing the OpenAPI Specifications (OAS), is welcoming Optic as a new member! Optic’s open source tools help…
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Announcing the API Specifications Conference (ASC) 2022 Early Bird Submission Deadline
The fourth API Specifications Conference (ASC) will take place from September 19th through September 21st. We’re delighted to be back in-person this year after two years of having a virtual-only…
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API Specifications Conference (ASC) 2022 – Call for Proposals
After a fantastic inaugural event in 2019, successful virtual events in 2020 and 2021, the API Specifications Conference (ASC) is back in-person in 2022, from September 19th through September 21st…
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Flotiq, API-First Content Management Platform, Joins OpenAPI Initiative
The OpenAPI Initiative, the consortium of forward-looking industry experts focused on evolving and implementing the OpenAPI Specification (OAS), is announcing that Flotiq has joined as a new member. Flotiq is…
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Treblle, API Monitoring and Analytics, Is OpenAPI’s Newest Member
The OpenAPI Initiative, the consortium of forward-looking industry experts focused on evolving and implementing the OpenAPI Specification (OAS), is announcing today that Treblle has joined as a new member. Treblle…
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This Year’s API Specification Conference (ASC 2021) by the Numbers
This year’s API Specifications Conference (ASC) organized by the OpenAPI initiative was held virtually from September 28 through 29, 2021. The conference continues to grow by leaps and bounds and…
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ReadMe, API Documentation Hub, Joins OpenAPI Initiative
The OpenAPI Initiative, the consortium of forward-looking industry experts focused on evolving and implementing the OpenAPI Specification (OAS), is announcing today that ReadMe has joined as a new member. With…
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Announcing Open Finance, a New OpenAPI Special Interest Group
OpenAPI has formed a Special Interest Group (SIG) for the purpose of identifying the API use cases and behaviors to empower Open Finance solutions in the near future. Open Finance…
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A Good Travel Experience Begins with One Single Booking Portal – How Open APIs Are Leading the Way
For more information on the OpenAPI Initiative and sig-travel, join the conversation on Slack. https://open-api.slack.com/archives/C0122NPKUR2 Today’s traveler is increasingly shopping for an experience, not just a seat on a plane…
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Kubeshop, Accelerator/Incubator for Kubernetes, Joins OpenAPI Initiative
The OpenAPI Initiative, the consortium of forward-looking industry experts focused on evolving and implementing the OpenAPI Specification (OAS), is announcing today that Kubeshop.io has joined as a new member. Kubeshop’s…
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Arnaud Lauret, the API Handyman, Covers His Top 4 Must-Attend Sessions at ASC 2021
We talked with Arnaud Lauret, well known as the API Handyman and author of The Design of Web APIs, to find out more about the upcoming ASC 2021 (Sept 28-29)…
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Eliminating Technological Barriers with OpenAPI New Member apiplatform.io
The OpenAPI Initiative welcomes apiplatform.io, a productivity management platform that allows users to build and manage backend applications with no code. With apiplatform.io, users can create and host fully functional…
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The State of API Development and the Upcoming ASC 2021 – A closeup with Mandy Whaley, Azure Dev Tools, Microsoft
ASC 2021 is being held virtually Sept 28-29 this year with an incredible array of API experts, users, and enthusiasts. OpenAPI Specification (OAS), RAML, Blueprint, gRPC, OData, JSON Schema, GraphQL…
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JSON Schema bundling finally formalised
This article was first published on the JSON Schema Blog and is canonically located at https://json-schema.org/blog/posts/bundling-json-schema-compound-documents I’ve been known to say “If you haven’t rewritten your OpenAPI bundling implementation recently…
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APIAddicts Joins OpenAPI Initiative
Welcome to APIAddicts! APIAddicts boasts one of the largest communities of API practitioners with an extensive international presence in Spanish-speaking countries including Spain, Perú and México with 5,000+ APIAddicts worldwide…
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OpenAPI Initiative Welcomes RapidAPI
RapidAPI is joining the OpenAPI Initiative! RapidAPI helps developers find, manage, and test APIs. They provide an API Marketplace for developers to discover and connect to thousands of public APIs…
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BetterCloud Joins OpenAPI Initiative
BetterCloud is joining the OpenAPI Initiative! BetterCloud is a SaaS management platform (SMP) that provides IT professionals with a solution to discover, manage and secure the growing stack of SaaS…
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Checkly, API Monitoring and Automation, Joins OpenAPI Initiative
Customer base already heavily utilizing OpenAPI Specification, Checkly “doubling down” on open source with increased contributions to projects like Headless Recorder and monitoring-as-code SAN FRANCISCO – April 27, 2021 …
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Leveraging the OpenAPI Specification in Financial Services – The Story of Plaid’s OpenAPI Journey
Written by Kin Lane, Chief Evangelist, Postman The complexity of providing financial services to businesses and consumers in today’s business climate is hard to overstate. APIs are a critical component…
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OpenAPI Initiative Welcomes Level 250 as Newest Member
Level 250 is joining the OpenAPI Initiative! Level 250 is a consulting organization that helps companies large and small improve their Product Strategies around SaaS, APIs and Developer-focused Tools: https://www.level250.com…
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OpenAPI Specification 3.1.0 Released
OpenAPI developer community and JSON Schema community work together to build upgrade that supports 100% compatibility with the latest draft of JSON Schema SAN FRANCISCO – February 18, 2021 …
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Migrating from OpenAPI 3.0 to 3.1.0
This post is authored by Phil Sturgeon, product manager, Stoplight, and Chairperson, Protect Earth. If you’d like to donate to Phil’s charity of choice, please see Protect Earth which is…
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OpenAPI Initiative Welcomes Ambassador Labs as Newest Member
Ambassador Labs enables application developers to ship software faster on Kubernetes. The company’s Kubernetes-native API gateway offers an open source development kit to develop, manage, and monitor microservice architectures, enabling…
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OpenAPI Welcomes New Member High School Technology Services
The OpenAPI Initiative, the consortium of forward-looking industry experts focused on creating, evolving, and promoting the OpenAPI Specification (OAS), a vendor-neutral, open description format for RESTful APIs, is announcing today…
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Vonage Joins OpenAPI Initiative
Press release from Vonage Vonage, a global leader in cloud communications helping businesses accelerate their digital transformation, announced today that it has joined the OpenAPI Initiative, a consortium of forward-looking…
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From APIDays Paris: OpenAPI 3.1 Coming Soon
Originally posted in the LORNAJANE Blog – Thank you, Lorna! What’s New in OpenAPI 3.1 With OpenAPI 3.1 coming “soon”, I gave a talk at APIDays Paris about what to…
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Band Protocol Becomes First Blockchain Firm To Join OpenAPI Initiative
Press Release from Band Protocol: Bangkok – 14 Dec 2020 : Sequoia-backed cross-chain data oracle Band Protocol, has joined the OpenAPI Initiative as the first blockchain firm alongside Google, eBay…
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Implementer’s Draft (OAS 3.1 RC1) Available for Feedback – Please Respond by Nov 8!
Request to the community! Please review RC1, implement it, and share with us your feedback by November 8th. The final version should come shortly after that. Release candidate 1 (RC1)…
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OpenAPI Welcomes New Member Osaango
The OpenAPI Initiative, the consortium of forward-looking industry experts focused on creating, evolving, and promoting the OpenAPI Specification (OAS), a vendor-neutral, open description format for RESTful APIs, is announcing today…
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OpenAPI Welcomes New Member APImetrics!
Welcome! APImetrics provides an enterprise focused API monitoring solution that interfaces with REST and SOAP API protocols. Monitoring is supported by analytics and customizable downtime alerts and provides data to…
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Announcing the New OpenAPI Initiative Special Interest Group for Travel
Join OpenTravel and the OpenAPI Initiative Travel Workgroup on July 22, 2020, as we bring the focus to the European traveller. Click here to get the Zoom invite. To get…
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OpenAPI Welcomes the OpenTravel Alliance as New Member
OpenAPI welcomes the OpenTravel Alliance as its newest member! OpenTravel is a not-for-profit trade association that develops data messaging structures in order to facilitate communication between the many facets of…
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OpenAPI Initiative Welcomes Bloomberg as Newest Member
OpenAPI Initiative continues fast pace of membership growth; Bloomberg joins 38 current members that include Atlassian, eBay, Google, Microsoft, Red Hat, SmartBear, and many more SAN FRANCISCO – April 14…
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Liferay Joins OpenAPI Initiative
OpenAPI welcomes Liferay as our newest OpenAPI member! Having a robust API infrastructure is critical to meeting diverse customer requirements for a Digital Experience Platform (DXP) product like Liferay DXP…
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Interzoid Joins the OpenAPI Initiative to Help Build Frictionless Data Future
OpenAPI welcomes Interzoid as a new OpenAPI member! “We are excited to be a part of accelerating the adoption of a standard that we believe will play a central role…
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Photos from ASC 2019
ASC 2019 was a fantastic event! Thank you to everyone who came and participated. Great speakers, great interactions between sessions, and, wow, nice location! Vancouver is beautiful. Here are some…
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Enterprise Software Pioneer IFS Joins the OpenAPI Initiative
OpenAPI Initiative is pleased to welcome IFS as a new OpenAPI member! IFS develops and delivers enterprise software for customers around the world who manufacture and distribute goods, build and…
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From Bitmovin: Our OpenAPI journey with Standardizing SDKs
This blog post was originally written by Sebastian Burgstaller for the Bitmovin blog. Bitmovin is a member of the OpenAPI Initiative. Don’t miss on out the most comprehensive API event…
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Introducing ASC, the API Specifications Conference
October 15-17th, 2019, Vancouver, Canada Two years ago, the OpenAPI Initiative took over the reins of APIStrat, the API Strategy Conference that the 3Scale team ran the previous seven years…
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Ably Realtime joins OpenAPI Initiative to share streaming data expertise
Ably Realtime, the creators of the cloud-based real time streaming data platform, recently announced its membership of the OpenAPI Initiative (OAI). Ably’s membership in OIA will help users of Ably’s…
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eBay Provides OpenAPI Specification (OAS) for All its RESTful Public APIs
Today, eBay announced that they are leveraging the OpenAPI Specification (OAS) for all of its RESTful public APIs. With OpenAPI, developers can download an eBay OpenAPI contract, generate code and…
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The OAI Announces the OpenAPI Specification 3.0.0
The Open API Initiative (OAI), a Linux Foundation project created to advance API technology, announced the 3.0.0 release of the OpenAPI Specification. The OAI provides a foundation for developing interoperability…
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TDC: Structural Improvements: explaining the 3.0 spec, part 2
With the version 3.0 of the OpenAPI Specification nearing a beta candidate, this series of posts is meant to provide insight into what is changing and how. The first post…
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Open API Initiative, 9 Months and Counting – OAI Meetup 2016-09-15
At the OAI Meetup on Sept 15, Jeff Borek of IBM took the audience on the journey the Open API Iniative has taken over the last 9 months. Starting with…
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OpenAPI Spec at Google – OAI Meetup 2016-09-15
Before the precursor to the OpenAPI Spec – the Swagger Specification – was created in 2010, Google had already published 150 public APIs, leveraged by hundreds of thousands of developers…
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Zipping through the OpenAPI with Capital One – OAI Meetup 2016-09-15
Statically defined processing in your API stack is so last year. Learn about the the new and interesting ways Capital One is using the OpenAPI Specification to enable more flexible…
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Open API Initiative: Six months and counting (Recording)
Watch a recording of IBM developerWorks Open where OAI Board member Jeff Borek (@jeffborek) moderates a discussion with fellow OAI members Capital One’s Dennis Brennan (@dennis brennan), Apigee’s Marsh Gardiner…
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Gluecon Wrap up: Living Up to the Hype for a First-Timer
Last year, I was disappointed to miss out on Gluecon. My colleagues spoke very highly of it — informative, state-of-the-art, and very non-commercial. I was glad that it worked with…
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Gluecon Pass Giveaway!
Gluecon is just around the corner, and the Open API Initiative is giving a way a free pass. To qualify: 1. Find any open source project that refers to Swagger…
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gRPC with REST and OpenAPI Specification
Our guest post today comes from Brandon Phillips of CoreOS. CoreOS builds open source projects and products for Linux Containers. Their flagship products for consensus and discovery (etcd) and their…
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State of the Project Update with Jeff Borek at the 2016 Collaboration Summit
The Linux Foundation asked me to do a lighting talk at the Linux Collab Summit at Lake Tahoe earlier this year. I was pleased to speak on behalf of The…
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Developers: APIs are crucial to business, but tough to get right
A survey of API developers claims security, customer satisfaction, and speed of deployment are among the biggest challenges APIs matter, big time, and not offering an API deprives your software…
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OAI Update – new members, OpenAPI Spec 3.0 progress, and more!
Here comes a quick update on the ongoings within the OAI: New Members There is an ongoing interest in joining the OAI and we are thrilled to welcome two new…
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Developer.aero adopts new Open API Definition Format via 3Scale Platform
We are delighted to be associated with the latest global API standards initiative which is being driven by a new organization, the OAI (Open API Initiative). This non profit organisation…
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Next steps for the OAI – an exciting 2016 looms ahead!
Amidst the general ongoing end-of-year activities, the OAI has been busy getting all the initial pieces into place for 2016. The meetings we’ve had within the group during last December…
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Interview with Tony Tam on the Open API Initiative and Latest Swagger News
After the Linux Foundation announced the formation of the Open API Initiative (OAI) in the beginning of November with an impressive list of founding members, API developers had questions about…
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Open Source Projects Further RESTful API-Based Development
Open source projects are emerging to further software development practices based on RESTful APIs, which are becoming more instrumental in providing app back-end services and other functionality. To establish standards…
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IBM collaborates with Yes Bank, Bian to promote the API economy
IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced API Harmony an intelligent cloud-based API matchmaking technology for developers as part of a series of technology, product and services announcements to advance the growing…
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New Collaborative Project to Extend Swagger Specification for Building Connected Applications and Services
SAN FRANCISCO, CA–(Marketwired – Nov 5, 2015) – The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit organization dedicated to accelerating the growth of Linux and collaborative development, today is announcing the Open API…
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SmartBear Launches Open API Initiative with Key Industry Leaders including Google, IBM and Microsoft
New Initiative under The Linux Foundation to Create Open Approach to Governing the Evolution of Swagger Specification SmartBear Software, the leader in software quality tools for the connected world, has…
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New Collaborative Project to Extend Swagger Specification for Building Connected Applications and Services
The Linux Foundation will host new Open API Initiative with initial contributions from SmartBear and founding members 3Scale, Apigee, Capital One, Google, IBM, Intuit, Microsoft, PayPal and Restlet SAN FRANCISCO…