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Jul 13
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WireMock, Venture Funded Open Source API Mock Platform, Joins OpenAPI Initiative as New Member

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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. Welcome WireMock!

WireMock was created in 2011 and has been a popular open source tool for API mocking. Last year, project founders Tom Akehurst and Uri Maoz launched a company with the same name. They created a managed cloud service called WireMock Cloud, and in May 2023 announced a $6.5 million investment from Ridge Ventures, with participation from First Rays Venture Partners, Scribble Ventures and several unnamed investors.

Building a stable and predictable environment when creating APIs is crucial to the efficiency and success of developers. WireMock is a flexible and free open source platform that can be run as a standalone server, or in a hosted version via the WireMock Cloud managed service.

“We are thrilled to welcome WireMock as a member of the OpenAPI Initiative! Mocking APIs plays a crucial role in reducing development time and increasing productivity for developers. The open source community relies heavily on mocking tools in order to speed up development, better test for edge cases, and much more,” said Isabelle Mauny, OpenAPI Business Governing Board Chair. “It’s important for tools makers to implement the OpenAPI Specification and mocking APIs is one of the great benefits of using the OpenAPI Specification for your APIs.”

“OpenAPI is the key standard around which a rich ecosystem of tools and infrastructure is rapidly evolving. We believe that first-class OpenAPI support in WireMock will unlock a huge amount of productivity for both API developers and consumers,” said Tom Akerhust, the WireMock creator and the CTO of WireMock Inc.

“API-first development is at the core of both the WireMock open source project and WireMock Cloud, our developer productivity platform. Support for OpenAPI is central to our mission of enabling developers to simulate APIs across the entire application lifecycle”, said Oleg Nenashev, Community Builder and CNCF/CDF Ambassador, WireMock, “We believe that our vision and products are closely aligned with the OpenAPI Initiative. We’re pleased to join OAI as a member and work on expanding the OpenAPI ecosystem together”

Learn more in WireMock’s announcement blog post.

OpenAPI Resources

Want to become a member of the OpenAPI Initiative? Find more information here: https://www.openapis.org/membership/join 

To learn more about participating in the evolution of the OpenAPI Specification: https://www.openapis.org/participate/how-to-contribute

About the OpenAPI Initiative

The OpenAPI Initiative (OAI) was created by a consortium of forward-looking industry experts who recognize the immense value of standardizing on how APIs are described. As an open governance structure under the Linux Foundation, the OAI is focused on creating, evolving and promoting a vendor neutral description format. The OpenAPI Specification was originally based on the Swagger Specification, donated by SmartBear Software. To get involved with the OpenAPI Initiative, please visit https://www.openapis.org

About Linux Foundation

Founded in 2000, the Linux Foundation is supported by more than 1,000 members and is the world’s leading home for collaboration on open source software, open standards, open data, and open hardware. Linux Foundation projects like Linux, Kubernetes, Node.js and more are considered critical to the development of the world’s most important infrastructure. Its development methodology leverages established best practices and addresses the needs of contributors, users and solution providers to create sustainable models for open collaboration. For more information, please visit us at linuxfoundation.org.

About WireMock

WireMock is a popular open-source tool for API simulations (aka API mocking). It is used for integration testing of applications, especially via REST API. Started in 2011 as a Java library by Tom Akehurst, it now spans multiple programming languages and technology stacks. WireMock helps to create stable test and development environments, isolate code from flakey 3rd parties and simulate APIs that aren’t currently available. It can run as a test library, as a standalone server or via the WireMock Cloud service. With more than 300 contributors, 50+ integrations and 5+ million downloads a month, it is one of the most popular open source projects in its domain.

About WireMock, Inc. 

WireMock Inc. is building software to unlock developer productivity by enabling collaborative API design, mocking APIs and eliminating slowdowns caused by external dependencies. The company was started in 2022 by Tom Akehurst and Uri Maoz becoming its CEO and CTO. WireMock Cloud, the company’s flagship product, is built on top of the WireMock open source project stewarded by the company.

Recent WireMock News: What Our $6.5M Seed Round Means for WireMock and the WireMock Community

May 24
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Karate Labs, Testing Automation Framework, is Joining the OpenAPI Initiative

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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 GitHub stars | Used by Fortune 500 companies worldwide 

Karate Labs is an open-source solution unifying API & UI test automation including mock-servers and performance testing. Karate’s core of API testing includes sophisticated payload data and schema validation, and a unique capability to re-use API tests as performance tests.

Karate Labs API data importer enables teams to import all leading sources of API data and to preview, edit and export the API sequence using an intuitive no-code user experience.

“With more teams adopting the OpenAPI Specification as a standard, we see the opportunity to align test automation efforts and further accelerate adoption. We are excited to join the OpenAPI Initiative to deliver even more value to our customers,” said Kapil Bakshi, co-founder, and CEO of Karate Labs. “With software products depending more than ever on APIs, the OpenAPI specification has injected more rigor and collaboration into how APIs are designed, implemented, and consumed. Karate Labs aims to simplify test automation for business stakeholders, product owners, and QA specialists.” 

OpenAPI Initiative is always welcoming NEW MEMBERS, find more information about becoming an OpenAPI member here!

Karate Labs Resources:

OpenAPI Resources

To learn more about participating in the evolution of the OpenAPI Specification: https://www.openapis.org/participate/how-to-contribute

About the OpenAPI Initiative

The OpenAPI Initiative (OAI) was created by a consortium of forward-looking industry experts who recognize the immense value of standardizing on how APIs are described. As an open governance structure under the Linux Foundation, the OAI is focused on creating, evolving, and promoting a vendor-neutral description format. The OpenAPI Specification was originally based on the Swagger Specification, donated by SmartBear Software. To get involved with the OpenAPI Initiative, please visit https://www.openapis.org

About Linux Foundation

Founded in 2000, the Linux Foundation is supported by more than 1,000 members and is the world’s leading home for collaboration on open-source software, open standards, open data, and open hardware. Linux Foundation projects like Linux, Kubernetes, Node.js and more are considered critical to the development of the world’s most important infrastructure. Its development methodology leverages established best practices and addresses the needs of contributors, users, and solution providers to create sustainable models for open collaboration. For more information, please visit us at linuxfoundation.org.

May 04
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OpenAPI Welcomes New Member Optic

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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 make the OpenAPI Specification and API-first practices adoptable. Keeping up-to-date OpenAPI descriptions is an important part of any API-first workflow and Optic’s tools are intended to make it easy for every developer to work with OpenAPI without having to write it manually. 

“Optic has been one of the most popular open source tools for maintaining accurate API docs. We always had our own spec under the hood, but some of our largest customers and most influential community members started a project to adopt OpenAPI,” said Aidan Cunniffe, CEO and Founder, Optic. “Coming home to OpenAPI has been really great, and we’re excited to take all the learnings and use them to make OpenAPI more adoptable for teams.”

Once teams are planning and tracking their API changes in OpenAPI, they are well on their way to working API-first. Optic’s API Review tool (in beta) can plug into Pull Requests and CI and shows Code Reviewers the API changes under consideration and their impact. Teams can set up CI to test API changes against their company’s API guidelines. This helps developers think about the impact of problematic changes before they get deployed to consumers. 

Optic Resources

OpenAPI Resources

To learn more about participate in the evolution of the OpenAPI Specification: https://www.openapis.org/participate/how-to-contribute

About the OpenAPI Initiative

The OpenAPI Initiative (OAI) was created by a consortium of forward-looking industry experts who recognize the immense value of standardizing on how APIs are described. As an open governance structure under the Linux Foundation, the OAI is focused on creating, evolving, and promoting a vendor neutral description format. The OpenAPI Specification was originally based on the Swagger Specification, donated by SmartBear Software. To get involved with the OpenAPI Initiative, please visit https://www.openapis.org

About Linux Foundation

Founded in 2000, the Linux Foundation is supported by more than 1,000 members and is the world’s leading home for collaboration on open-source software, open standards, open data, and open hardware. Linux Foundation projects like Linux, Kubernetes, Node.js and more are considered critical to the development of the world’s most important infrastructure. Its development methodology leverages established best practices and addresses the needs of contributors, users, and solution providers to create sustainable models for open collaboration. For more information, please visit us at linuxfoundation.org.

Mar 28
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Flotiq, API-First Content Management Platform, Joins OpenAPI Initiative

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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 a content management platform that is focused on APIs. It enables users to create custom content types. It generates supporting APIs, documentation, SDKs, and Postman collections. The Content Types created in Flotiq are automatically translated into a set of RESTful endpoints. Flotiq provides an OpenAPI schema that updates automatically after every change made to data models. That schema is then used for generating SDKs and API docs. Tapping into the OpenAPI ecosystem – Flotiq takes the developer experience to the next level and facilitates system intregration and publishing content through standard-compliant APIs.

“At Flotiq we strongly believe in open standards to enable development of well-engineered systems. We support the OpenAPI Specification extensively in our product, and by joining the OpenAPI Initiative we see a real opportunity to help shape the future of OpenAPI,” said Andrew Wytyczak-Partyka, CEO, Flotiq. “Now, more than ever, it’s time for us to engage with the community. We’re excited to be a member of the OpenAPI Initiative.”

Flotiq Resources

OpenAPI Resources

To learn more about participate in the evolution of the OpenAPI Specification: https://www.openapis.org/participate/how-to-contribute

About the OpenAPI Initiative

The OpenAPI Initiative (OAI) was created by a consortium of forward-looking industry experts who recognize the immense value of standardizing on how APIs are described. As an open governance structure under the Linux Foundation, the OAI is focused on creating, evolving, and promoting a vendor neutral description format. The OpenAPI Specification was originally based on the Swagger Specification, donated by SmartBear Software. To get involved with the OpenAPI Initiative, please visit https://www.openapis.org

About Linux Foundation

Founded in 2000, the Linux Foundation is supported by more than 1,000 members and is the world’s leading home for collaboration on open-source software, open standards, open data, and open hardware. Linux Foundation projects like Linux, Kubernetes, Node.js and more are considered critical to the development of the world’s most important infrastructure. Its development methodology leverages established best practices and addresses the needs of contributors, users, and solution providers to create sustainable models for open collaboration. For more information, please visit us at linuxfoundation.org.

Feb 10
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Treblle, API Monitoring and Analytics, Is OpenAPI’s Newest Member

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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 provides API monitoring and analytics solutions, and makes it “easy to understand what’s going on with your APIs and the apps that use them.” Treblle was established to solve problems the founders themselves, Vedran Cindrić and Darko Blaževic, had experienced. 

Based in Zagreb, Croatia, Treblle announced €1.2 million in via Nauta Capital in July 2021. 

“I wanted Treblle to join the OpenAPI specification because I strongly believe that we need to have some kind of standard, guide or north star when it comes to API docs,” said Vedran Cindrić, Founder, Treblle. “I’ve spent the past 10 years building products, platforms, apps and APIs. I saw some amazing APIs with superb documentation, but I also saw a lot of terrible APIs that were documented horribly. I think the OpenAPI specification is a great way of pushing documentation forward and, more importantly, pushing developers forward to not just write docs but build better APIs.”

Full Treblle API Monitoring and Analytics information available here: https://treblle.com/ 

More from Treblle

Free Treblle ebook for building great REST APIs: https://treblle.com/ebooks/the-10-rest-commandments 

Treblle for PHP, Python, Node, Laraval and more: https://github.com/Treblle 

Treblle on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/DevelopingAPIs/ 

OpenAPI Resources

To learn more about participate in the evolution of the OpenAPI Specification: https://www.openapis.org/participate/how-to-contribute

About the OpenAPI Initiative

The OpenAPI Initiative (OAI) was created by a consortium of forward-looking industry experts who recognize the immense value of standardizing on how APIs are described. As an open governance structure under the Linux Foundation, the OAI is focused on creating, evolving and promoting a vendor neutral description format. The OpenAPI Specification was originally based on the Swagger Specification, donated by SmartBear Software. To get involved with the OpenAPI Initiative, please visit https://www.openapis.org

About Linux Foundation

Founded in 2000, the Linux Foundation is supported by more than 1,000 members and is the world’s leading home for collaboration on open source software, open standards, open data, and open hardware. Linux Foundation projects like Linux, Kubernetes, Node.js and more are considered critical to the development of the world’s most important infrastructure. Its development methodology leverages established best practices and addresses the needs of contributors, users and solution providers to create sustainable models for open collaboration. For more information, please visit us at linuxfoundation.org.

Dec 09
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ReadMe, API Documentation Hub, Joins OpenAPI Initiative

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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 ReadMe, teams create interactive developer hubs that help users learn, build, and debug API issues. Access to real-time API request history can improve developer support and visibility into how APIs are being used to prioritize improvements. 

Backed by Accel, ReadMe supports developer hubs for more than 10,000 API teams like Notion, Scale AI, Lyft, and Intercom. 

Focus on Easier to Use APIs

“ReadMe’s mission is to make documentation and APIs better for everybody. The goal of making every API easier and more fun to use guides everything we do — from big product updates like our recent API Reference redesign or ReadMe Recipes to little details like code samples generated by the api SDK and schema-based tooltips,” said Gregory Koberger, ReadMe Founder and CEO. “The OpenAPI Specification has helped us better understand the complexity of APIs, so we can better abstract that complexity away for our customers. We’re looking forward to bringing our perspective on developer experience to the group!”

Supporting OpenAPI v3.1

Along with joining the OAI, today ReadMe is announcing full upload support for OpenAPI v3.1. After uploading an OpenAPI 3.1 file in ReadMe, users can take advantage of a growing set of OpenAPI functionality in their API Reference, including recently added support for tag and callback objects.

If you’d like to contact ReadMe directly, send email to support@readme.io or on Twitter at @readme.

OpenAPI Resources

To learn more about participate in the evolution of the OpenAPI Specification: https://www.openapis.org/participate/how-to-contribute

About the OpenAPI Initiative

The OpenAPI Initiative (OAI) was created by a consortium of forward-looking industry experts who recognize the immense value of standardizing on how APIs are described. As an open governance structure under the Linux Foundation, the OAI is focused on creating, evolving and promoting a vendor neutral description format. The OpenAPI Specification was originally based on the Swagger Specification, donated by SmartBear Software. To get involved with the OpenAPI Initiative, please visit https://www.openapis.org

About Linux Foundation

Founded in 2000, the Linux Foundation is supported by more than 1,000 members and is the world’s leading home for collaboration on open source software, open standards, open data, and open hardware. Linux Foundation projects like Linux, Kubernetes, Node.js and more are considered critical to the development of the world’s most important infrastructure. Its development methodology leverages established best practices and addresses the needs of contributors, users and solution providers to create sustainable models for open collaboration. For more information, please visit us at linuxfoundation.org.

Sep 23
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Kubeshop, Accelerator/Incubator for Kubernetes, Joins OpenAPI Initiative

By Announcement, Blog

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 CTO, Ole Lensmar, served as the chairman of the OpenAPI Initiative from its inception in 2016 until 2020. We welcome back the familiar face! 

Kubeshop is an open-source accelerator/incubator focused on Kubernetes (“K8s”). Kubeshop identifies needs and offers resources and guidance to projects within the k8s space, specifically focusing on helping Developers, Testers, and DevOPS engineers with tooling that strives to make complex workflows simpler and more productive. Currently, Kubeshop is home to Kusk, Kubtest, and Monokle:

  • Kusk allows users to work with an OpenAPI specification as the source of truth for Kubernetes manifests, simplifying cluster configuration and management across a number of popular Kubernetes Ingress Controllers
  • Kubtest provides a framework for testing of applications and APIs running under Kubernetes, allowing teams to decouple test orchestration and execution from ci/cd tooling and centralize test-result management and analysis
  • Monokle simplifies everyday tasks and workflows related to management and debugging of k8s manifests 

“Joining and supporting the OAI was an obvious step for us; the OAI is central to the continued adoption and evolution of the OpenAPI Specification, and we are excited about the prospect of housing projects targeting OpenAPI specific needs and Kubernetes workflows,” said Ole Lensmar, CTO, Kubeshop.

We look forward to watching Kubeshop grow and evolve, and help out k8s developers! 

OpenAPI Resources

To learn more about participate in the evolution of the OpenAPI Specification: https://www.openapis.org/participate/how-to-contribute

About the OpenAPI Initiative

The OpenAPI Initiative (OAI) was created by a consortium of forward-looking industry experts who recognize the immense value of standardizing on how APIs are described. As an open governance structure under the Linux Foundation, the OAI is focused on creating, evolving and promoting a vendor neutral description format. The OpenAPI Specification was originally based on the Swagger Specification, donated by SmartBear Software. To get involved with the OpenAPI Initiative, please visit https://www.openapis.org

About Linux Foundation

Founded in 2000, the Linux Foundation is supported by more than 1,000 members and is the world’s leading home for collaboration on open source software, open standards, open data, and open hardware. Linux Foundation projects like Linux, Kubernetes, Node.js and more are considered critical to the development of the world’s most important infrastructure. Its development methodology leverages established best practices and addresses the needs of contributors, users and solution providers to create sustainable models for open collaboration. For more information, please visit us at linuxfoundation.org.

Sep 13
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Eliminating Technological Barriers with OpenAPI New Member apiplatform.io

By Announcement, Blog

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 workflows and APIs to move legacy databases to the cloud. 

apiplatform boasts an extensive client list including Lamico Systems and Site Lantern.

apiplatform allows users to go from idea to product quickly. Thanks to their fully automated but highly configurable model, databases can be efficiently migrated according to the OpenAPI Specification (OAS). By allowing users to modernize databases with speed, apiplatform lessens user costs without sacrificing quality. 

We sat down with co-founder and CEO Muthu Raju to learn more about what apiplatform is currently working on, and why they joined the OpenAPI Initiative. 

Why are you joining the OpenAPI Initiative, and why now?

At apiplatform.io, we automate all the steps in the API development cycle so that our users can achieve integration and digital transformation at speed. We automate API generation and deployment based on API Specification provided as input to our platform.

The OpenAPI Initiative is focused on creating and promoting a vendor-neutral description format. Therefore, we feel OpenAPI Initiative is the right place to collaborate and arrive at a description format for building business logic, workflows, and continuous automation in our platform.

In your mission statement, you talk about eliminating technology barriers. How are you doing this?

We automate the developer lifecycle processes for a given API Specification by generating the code for the specification, testing and deploying them to a cloud platform, and setting up a gateway for secured access control. So, the end-user doesn’t need to understand how to use the tools, platforms, services, and technologies to operationalize their API or invest their time in coding, setting up the continuous delivery pipeline, etc. One can jump from design to delivery of API for a given specification!

apiplatform.io developed the Covid19 Virtual Assistant to help people find and use COVID-19 data. How does it work, and how does someone access it?

https://covid19.apiplatform.io/ was developed and deployed in early 2020 by integrating the  COVID-19 Dashboard by the Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) and Johns Hopkins University (JHU) along with a Virtual Assistant “GOVID” to assist people looking for food, medicine, online consultation, etc. This Virtual Assistance was helping people until the Indian Government authorized only a few private and government bodies to host such services during the pandemic.

What’s important about the new OpenAPI Specification 3.1.0 for apiplatform.io? What are the challenges for broader adoption?

OpenAPI Specification, be it 3.1.0 or any other version, will be the primary specification supported by apiplatform.io which means we automate the development lifecycle of API based on the specification. Therefore, we don’t foresee any challenge as such for the broader adoption.

OpenAPI Resources

To learn more about participate in the evolution of the OpenAPI Specification: https://www.openapis.org/participate/how-to-contribute

About the OpenAPI Initiative

The OpenAPI Initiative (OAI) was created by a consortium of forward-looking industry experts who recognize the immense value of standardizing on how APIs are described. As an open governance structure under the Linux Foundation, the OAI is focused on creating, evolving and promoting a vendor neutral description format. The OpenAPI Specification was originally based on the Swagger Specification, donated by SmartBear Software. To get involved with the OpenAPI Initiative, please visit https://www.openapis.org

About Linux Foundation

Founded in 2000, the Linux Foundation is supported by more than 1,000 members and is the world’s leading home for collaboration on open source software, open standards, open data, and open hardware. Linux Foundation projects like Linux, Kubernetes, Node.js and more are considered critical to the development of the world’s most important infrastructure. Its development methodology leverages established best practices and addresses the needs of contributors, users and solution providers to create sustainable models for open collaboration. For more information, please visit us at linuxfoundation.org.

Jul 22
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APIAddicts Joins OpenAPI Initiative

By Announcement, Blog

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, and over a million visualizations. 

APIAddicts hosts multiple events throughout the year for developers wanting to discuss, learn more, and contribute to the growth and integration of APIs. Many details are provided in the interview below. APIAddicts Days is one of the most important events hosted by them annually. Companies and professionals share their experiences while analyzing the successes and failures in the current framework that supports API. To find out how APIAddicts Days was in 2020, click here. 

APIAddicts has a strong education focus. Their School of API’s aims at helping professionals improve their use of APIs. At the end of the courses, you are awarded an API Evangelist Certificate / Recognition / Diploma.

We wanted to learn more about their upcoming events and the latest updates in the API world, and what working with the OpenAPI Initiative would look like. We talked to Marco Antonio Sanz, founder of APIAddicts, to find out more!

How was APIAddicts born?

In 2013 five very techie friends and colleagues were working in large companies managing APIs and realized a lack of APIs documentation and education in Spanish at that moment. 

So they started giving a series of informal talks to share their knowledge. Meetup groups were created, which are still active today, to connect with other people interested in digital transformation and we started to meet monthly to talk about news or updates in the sector, actually the first meetings were in a bar in Getafe, until it was gradually formalized.

This was growing and finally formed what today is APIAddicts, the largest Spanish-speaking community around APIs with more than 5,000 APIAddicts in Spain, Chile, Peru, Mexico, Colombia and Argentina. 

How hard is it to get an API Evangelist Diploma? What are the main benefits?

The evangelization of APIs and the training of professionals in it is so important, so from the Foundation we wanted to go a step further and help companies to qualify their teams with the most updated knowledge and from the best experts. 

We had already been doing the API Owner course for years, which is in great popular demand today, and we decided to complete the training with the specialization courses in Security, Testing, Design and Architecture. This way you can get an overview of the entire APIfication process of a company and learn how to manage each of these phases optimally. 

All the courses involve a total training of 50 hours with 80% of hands-on practice where students can apply the knowledge they have learned. Once the courses are finished, they present an API project to the teachers, who evaluate and assess the documentation. 

If they achieve the API project taking into account the requirements and concepts of the courses, they obtain the certifications of each specialty and the API Evangelist Diploma, the highest certification for an API professional. 

Nowadays there are many companies that trust in the courses of the API School of the Foundation and with them they specialize their teams, PM, QA, Technical Lead, Analysts, Coordinators… Taking these courses guarantees you knowledge in the whole APIfication process and a clear management of the necessary tools. This not only increases your job projection but also your career within the companies.

What is APIAddicts mission in the evangelization of APIs?

We have always been aware that, although APIs are a key factor in companies that want to be competitive today, it is a term that generates a lot of confusion. Therefore, we could say that the APIAddicts Foundation’s evangelizing mission began in 2013 when APIs were already being used but no one fully understood what they were for. In fact, the role of our community has been essential to introduce the transformative potential of APIs in Spain.

In this sense, we carry out annual studies, Open Source tools, training courses, 3 large events: Webseries, Startups and APIs and APIAddicts Days and more than 20 annual meetups. We are the community that has created more API documentation in Spanish and now we hope to continue doing so with OpenAPI. 

We believe that if we had to define what our main differentiation is, it would be that we always try to have the best referents of the sector to inspire in the use of APIs and always from a close treatment, being a real community.  That is why, for example, all our API School courses are not recorded because for us this makes you lose an essential part of the API training: sharing experiences and real cases with the live expert. 

Finally, every day, and more and more strongly, we continue to do what we were born for: to bring the knowledge of APIs to every Spanish-speaking corner of the world, in a disruptive way.

What is the relationship between APIAddicts and CloudAPPI?

After starting the evangelization of APIs through talks and meetups, the community was gaining popularity and with it came business opportunities. This became a turning point in which they decided to leave their usual jobs to set up their own consulting firm, outside the bases of the association, because on one side runs the foundation and on the other the company, but they could accompany each other as partners in their growth, both approaching the life cycle of the APIs from different points of view.

Therefore, today the relationship between both entities is based on sponsorship, so they actively participate in different events. However, the Foundation supports itself with its own budget thanks to the other sponsors, courses of the API School and prices of some of the tickets for our events. 

We always had it clear, the Foundation was born altruistically by a group of teckie friends who love APIs to promote the knowledge of APIs in Spanish and will always remain so.

Why did APIAddicts join OpenAPI Initiative and why now?

In these last few years we have been trying to take API Evangelism further in all formats: Open Source tools, international events, new broadcasting formats such as podcasts, specialization courses… Within all of this, we saw the need to be part of a development community as essential for the future of APIs as the OpenAPI Initiative. 

This way we can offer added value to our community and increase the role of the Foundation in the future of APIs.  We want to help to improve the specification and thus improve the level of the tools that allow the implementation of API First methodologies, such as API Tools.

We enjoyed hearing from the APIAddicts team and learning about the fantastic work they are doing. We appreciate the value they place in community building and vocalizing the needs of the API community.

OpenAPI Resources

To learn more about participate in the evolution of the OpenAPI Specification: https://www.openapis.org/participate/how-to-contribute

About the OpenAPI Initiative

The OpenAPI Initiative (OAI) was created by a consortium of forward-looking industry experts who recognize the immense value of standardizing on how APIs are described. As an open governance structure under the Linux Foundation, the OAI is focused on creating, evolving and promoting a vendor neutral description format. The OpenAPI Specification was originally based on the Swagger Specification, donated by SmartBear Software. To get involved with the OpenAPI Initiative, please visit https://www.openapis.org

About Linux Foundation

Founded in 2000, the Linux Foundation is supported by more than 1,000 members and is the world’s leading home for collaboration on open source software, open standards, open data, and open hardware. Linux Foundation projects like Linux, Kubernetes, Node.js and more are considered critical to the development of the world’s most important infrastructure. Its development methodology leverages established best practices and addresses the needs of contributors, users and solution providers to create sustainable models for open collaboration. For more information, please visit us at linuxfoundation.org.

Jun 16
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OpenAPI Initiative Welcomes RapidAPI

By Announcement, Blog

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. The company’s services can be tailored to a company’s brand, to build private marketplaces for internal and external APIs. Notable enterprise clients include SAP, Cisco, Tata, and Hyatt. 

To learn more about RapidAPI Marketplace, sign up for a free account here.

To better understand how RapidAPI provides a next-generation infrastructure for APIs and what a collaboration with the OpenAPI Initiative would mean for them, we asked Iddo Gino, CEO and Founder.

Why did RapidAPI join the OpenAPI Initiative, and why now?

APIs are the heart and soul of RapidAPI. With acquisitions like the Paw Client and unique developer tools such as RapidAPI Testing — we care deeply about the developer experience of writing, publishing, and ultimately maintaining APIs. OpenAPI plays a significant role in all of this.

Our goal in joining the OpenAPI Initiative is to give back to the community. As we build the next-generation of API Developer Tooling, it’s more important than ever to be part of the API builders’ community conversations. OAI is where API builders and API consumers go beyond the original spec to collaborate on exciting things such as JSON Schema and Asynchronous APIs and beyond. RapidAPI wants to help advance the specification through participation in the community.

Additionally, we’re committed to making our platform easily interface with 3rd party tools. Therefore, it’s important for us to continually support the OpenAPI Specification format, allow interconnectivity of all tools, and avoid customer lock-in.

The RapidAPI team has a history of participation in development communities. Our Head of DevRel Ahmad Awais is an active voting member of the Node.js Community Committee and WordPress Foundation Core Contributor before that. Our Head of Marketing, Suzanne Panoplos, has been active in the Open Container Initiative and CNCF. As you can see, joining the OpenAPI Initiative and becoming a member of the Linux Foundation couldn’t be a more natural transition for RapidAPI. 

What goes into making an API marketplace? What makes one better than the other?

A robust API marketplace enables developers to find, connect and manage APIs from a single place and support a variety of APIs including REST, SOAP, GraphQL or Asynchronous APIs. For each API you should be able to see performance metrics like average latency, uptime, and popularity and be able to test the API from the browser.

Additionally, a marketplace should enable you to:

  • Gather information about each API using the endpoints page to view a list of endpoints, documentation, and a code snippet to help you implement the code into your app.
  • Subscribe to API plans to start using it. Manage all your API subscriptions and payments through a single source.
  • Utilize a single key for all your APIs.
  • Manage applications and API keys using a single dashboard. Using this dashboard, you should be able to:
    • Monitor API performance by visualizing how many requests are made to different APIs, tracking the number of requests that return an error, and viewing latency data for each API.
    • Debug faster by inspecting the logs for all requested data.
    • View usage and billing information for a breakdown of API spending, including the monthly recurring and overage charges.
    • Manage subscriptions from one place including quota usage and time remaining until the quota limit resets.

How has COVID affected the use of APIs in the past year?

With the pandemic, digitalization has gone from being a “nice to have” to an imperative to survival. Take Starbucks as an example. Before the pandemic, 7% of Starbucks revenue came from mobile ordering. During the pandemic, 100% of their revenue came from mobile ordering as most stores were closed to in-person ordering. 

To react to the changing environment during the pandemic, companies had to adjust their application development process and accelerate their delivery to address changing market conditions. To do so, companies have to rely on APIs in their software development. 

This trend is true across almost all industries during the pandemic. Still, there has been an explosion of API usage in healthcare settings, where services, appointments, and scheduling have taken place online to the homebound consumption of services such as food ordering, retail, etc. 

This trend was highlighted in RapidAPI’s 2020 Developer Survey, released earlier this year. The survey indicated that developer reliance on APIs accelerated during the pandemic and will continue to increase in 2021.The data revealed that 61% of developers used more APIs in 2020 than in 2019, and 71% plan to use even more during the upcoming year. 

What’s your vision for API marketplaces 1-3 years out?

As API proliferation continues to increase across all organizations, enterprises will find it to be a necessity for finding, connecting to and managing their APIs. Marketplaces will need to provide:

  • An Open Platform – With organizations using disparate API gateways, marketplaces will offer a platform for integrating with multiple different gateways and clouds. 
  • Developer Experience – Marketplaces will need to be continually developer-first, providing the key features needed to deliver API use and reuse such as deep search and tagging API analytics for providers or consumers, and advanced usage controls for developers.
  • Out of the box experience – Marketplaces will need to have everything developers need to succeed including advanced features such deep search, end user analytics, and developer registration workflows.
  • Many-to-Many Model – Marketplaces will need to support multiple teams of API providers offering APIs to internal consumers as well as partners and customers.
  • Support for All API Types – Marketplaces should support all of the last APIs including SOAP, REST, GraphQL, Async APIs like Kafka, and more.
  • Scalability – Marketplaces should scale to support hundreds of APIs with room for future growth.
  • Governance – Marketplaces will unify visibility and governance across all APIs in the organization, regardless of which clouds or API gateways are in use. 

We are excited to welcome RapidAPI to our list of growing members and look forward to working closely together!

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