ASC 2019 - API Specifications Conference

OpenAPI is becoming a pervasive standard, but it’s not the only way to describe an API. At Transposit, we’ve built our product around OpenAPI, but some major API vendors have their own means to describe their APIs. We’ve learned a lot from Google and AWS in particular which have highly standardized APIs, but also codify some very useful semantic information about how to use the APIs. Some of these APIs and semantics can’t be expressed with OpenAPI, but OpenAPI provides a prescient extensions mechanism for going beyond the core spec. In this talk we’ll explore some alternate API definition mechanisms, and show some pragmatic uses of OpenAPI extensions to build even more powerful API consumers.