
Lint APIs with Spectral
By Arnaud Lauret
Are you struggling to design consistent APIs? On the verge of losing sanity while checking every single property of every schema is camelCased? Never remembering the parameters to use for pagination? Spectral is the tool you need: it will lint JSON Schema, AsyncAPI, and OpenAPI documents and do those checks for you.

The 15 rules of the OpenAPI-based tools club
By Arnaud Lauret
The OpenAPI Specification can facilitate everyone’s life and participate in the creation of better APIs and a better API ecosystem. But it will work only if the members of the OpenAPI-based tools club follow the rules.

Le Clash REST vs GraphQL
By Nicolas Barrasson & Jonathan Jalouzot & Arnaud Lauret
L’idée folle de l’équipe Microsoft User Group France pour API Days Paris 2021: un clash REST (représenté par votre serviteur) vs GraphQL (représenté par Jonathan Jalouzot, tenancier du Meetup GraphQL Paris) arbitré par Nicolas Barrasson.

Talking about The Design of Web APIs with Erik Wilde
By Erik Wilde & Arnaud Lauret
Had a great time chatting with Erik Wilde about the motivation for writing The Design of Web APIs book, and why it specifically focuses on the design aspect of the API lifecycle (and also why it is not titled The Implementation of Web APIs).

Arnaud Lauret's
API Stylebook
I started this project with a simple API Design Guidelines list in mind and ended with a fully analyzed collection of API design guidelines. I created it for others but I use it myself too. When I wonder how to handle some API design matters, I select the related topic and read how others handle it. To be honest, it needs some refresh, it is a real pain to update and maintain and could be more user friendly; that’s on my todo list.

Arnaud Lauret's
OpenAPI Map
I built the OpenAPI map because I was constantly searching for “how do this with the OpenAPI spec” and also “but where is that thing” in the specification. Having the OpenAPI specification represented as a tree given essential information and quick access to source documentation of each element saved me countless time.

James Higginbotham's
API Developer Weekly Newsletter
Hundreds if not thousand of websites talk about APIs, I rely on James Higginbotham’s newsletter to stay up to date about what is happening in the API space thanks to his weekly selection of great posts.

Matthew Reinbold's
Net API Notes Newsletter
I always read Matthew Reinbold’s Net API Notes Newsletter with delight. It’s not just a bunch of links; every week Matthew actually writes a letter in which he shares his thoughts accompanied with links to relevant posts of the past week.

Erik Wilde's
Web Concepts
If you wonder what means a 418 HTTP status code or which RFC defines the txn JWT claim, Web concepts is what you’re looking for. I just stopped doing HTTP/web/RFC related search, I now always check Erik Wilde’s web concepts first and usually find what I’m looking for instantly. Icing on the cake, all data is also available in JSON format.