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OpenAPI Openly Humiliates Themselves

So I can’t believe I am telling you this story much less that it occurred. The fact that the OpenAPI maintainers doubled down on something…

Nov 15, 2024

OpenAPI Openly Humiliates Themselves

Nov 15, 2024

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Why Api Gateways Are Dead (1 of 2)

(continue to Why Api Gateways are Dead Part 2 )

Nov 2, 2022

CORRECTION: Redirect should show as a ‘RESPONSE’, not ‘REQUEST’… as a new ‘request/response’ is issued at the proxy/gateway

Nov 2, 2022

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Why API Gateways Are Dead (2 of 2)

( back to Why Api Gateways Are Dead part 1 )

Dec 5, 2022

Why API Gateways Are Dead (2 of 2)

Dec 5, 2022

Why Design-First API’s Fail

You have most likely heard many api people touting the benefits of design first vs code first with people like myself shouting back…

Jan 22

Why Design-First API’s Fail

Jan 22

The Problems With OpenAPI

While OpenAPI has become a popular and widely used specification for RESTful API design, there are several criticisms and limitations…

Jan 15

Jan 15

API RULES vs Description

Not too long ago in web development, there was a framework called Drools which provided a standardized way to manage all your RULES for…

Jan 14

Jan 14

API Security Terminology

API security is something that mystifies nearly everyone having to develop a backend. To ease some of that, here is a list of…

Jan 5

API Security Terminology

Jan 5

Why Openapi Arazzo Fails

Arazzo, as an API flow description framework, faces a number of limitations and challenges when it comes to defining and documenting…

Dec 12, 2024

Dec 12, 2024

Obfuscating Source Code from AI (in Java)

With the advent of AI, open source code is at risk of becoming a plaything for Copilot and other systems to play with however they choose…

Oct 28, 2024

Obfuscating Source Code from AI (in Java)

Oct 28, 2024

Junior Developers Questions Are Not Dumb

Often times we want junior developers to ‘empower’ themselves by Googling a question rather than constantly going to the Senior.

Jun 18, 2024

Jun 18, 2024

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Owen Rubel is the 'API Expert'. He is an Original Amazon team member, Creator of API Chaining(R), Leader in API Automation

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