
People First: A not so gonzo API Strat Boston 2016 coverage
By Arnaud Lauret, November 19, 2016
The last API Strat 2016 day, after the last talk, a man living in kentucky asked me something like What is the one thing you will remember about this conference?. I answered something like People First.
People First. This is definitely what sticks in my mind after this conference.

OpenAPI Trek Series - Part 2
OpenAPI Trek Into Fastness
By Arnaud Lauret, November 19, 2016

API Style Guides Fireside Chat with Ronnie Mitra (API Days London 2016)
By Arnaud Lauret, November 17, 2016
API Days London 2016, take 2! I was very happy when Ronnie Mitra (@mitraman) from the API Academy invited me to do a fireside chat on API Style Guides at API Days London.

OpenAPI Trek Series - Part 1
OpenAPI Trek
By Arnaud Lauret, November 10, 2016

HTTP Status Trek (REST Fest 2016)
By Arnaud Lauret, October 1, 2016
I had the luck to go back to REST Fest, this second time was as awesome as last one. Here’s the video and slides of my 5 in 5 about HTTP Status Codes.

The API Stylebook
By Arnaud Lauret, September 10, 2016
I’m a thrilled to announce that apistylebook.com is now online.
The API Stylebook aims to help API Designers to solve API design matters and build their API design guidelines by providing quick and easy access to selected and categorized resources.
Read more on the API Stylebook blog

Writing OpenAPI (Swagger) Specification Tutorial Series - Part 8
Splitting specification file
By Arnaud Lauret, August 2, 2016
With previous posts we have learned to produce an OpenAPI specification containing all OpenAPI specification subtleties. Some specification files may become quite large or may contain elements which could be reused in other APIs. Splitting a specification file will help to keep it maintainable by creating smaller files and also help to ensure consistency throughout APIs by sharing common elements.

Writing OpenAPI (Swagger) Specification Tutorial Series - Part 7
Documentation
By Arnaud Lauret, June 12, 2016
Previous posts showed how to write a highly accurate description of an API interface contract with the OpenAPI specification. But an interface contract, no matter how brilliant, is nothing without some explainations. A fully documented OpenAPI specification file can provide some useful information and be used as a part of an API’s documentation.

Writing OpenAPI (Swagger) Specification Tutorial Series - Part 6
Defining Security
By Arnaud Lauret, May 22, 2016
After mastering input and output modeling like a Jedi, let’s see how we can describe API’s security with the OpenAPI specification’s.

Writing OpenAPI (Swagger) Specification Tutorial Series - Part 5
Advanced Input And Output Modeling
By Arnaud Lauret, May 6, 2016
After learning how to create an accurate data model, we continue to delve into the OpenAPI specification’s and discover how to describe tailor made API’s inputs and outputs.