APIs You Won't Hate

APIs You Won't Hate

A no-nonsense (well, some-nonsense) podcast about API design & development, new features in the world of HTTP, service-orientated architecture, microservices, and probably bikes.

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APIs You Won't Hate

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Apr 2, 2026

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Episodes

Analytics for your API, with Steve McDougall from Treblle 19.04.2023

Phil and Mike sit down for a chat with Steve McDougall, who has just recently started working in Developer Relations at Treblle, a past sponsor of APIs You Won't Hate. Treblle - Mission Control For Your APIs Steve McDougall on Mastodon: @juststeveking@php.social Steve McDougall on twitter: @juststeveking API Quality Score https://www.treblle.com/features/api-quality-score Green Software Foundation...

Learnin' about webhooks, with Tom Haconen from Svix 05.04.2023

Svix - webhooks as a service - https://svix.com Svix play - https://www.svix.com/play/ Svix is hiring engineers - https://www.svix.com/careers/ ngrok - https://ngrok.com/ Catch Tom Haconen online - tom@svix.com svix.com/slack Creators & Guests Mike Bifulco - Host Tom Hacohen - Guest

Jazzed about API client library codegen, with Danny Sheridan from Fern 22.03.2023

Fern - Build APIs Twice as fast - https://buildwithfern.com/ Fern on GitHub - https://github.com/fern-api/fern Fern's Profile with YCombinator - https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/fern  Danny Sheridan - CEO and cofounder of Fern  danny@buildwithfern.com buf.build - protobuf codegen utility - https://buf.build/ Creators & Guests Mike Bifulco - Host Danny Sheridan - Guest

Stigg: Infrastructure for pricing models with Anton Zagrebelny 07.03.2023

Stigg: https://www.stigg.io/ - API-first pricing and packaging Stigg is Hiring: https://jobs.lever.co/stigg Find Anton Zagrebelny onlin:  Linkedin - GitHub — Thanks for listening to APIs You Won't Hate Creators & Guests Mike Bifulco - Host Anzon Zagrebelny - Guest

Don't roll your own API Management tools, with Josh Twist from Zuplo 16.02.2023

Our guest this episode is Josh Twist, CEO and Co-founder of Zuplo. We chat about Zuplo's history, their developer products and audience, and the complexities of maintaining APIs in small and large companies. We also discuss Zuplo's support for APIs You Won't Hate through their recent sponsorship of https://openapi.tools . Thanks so much to Zuplo for supporting our community! Creators & Guests...

Funding Open Source with Dudley Carr from Stack Aid 23.01.2023

Stack Aid - https://www.stackaid.us/ Dudley Carr - @dudley@mastodon.social

Note-taking tools for devs, with Drew White from Stashpad 09.01.2023

Stashpad - https://stashpad.com/ Stashpad Discord - https://discord.gg/ScxPxcN9fK Drew White - @drucial

API Environmentalism with Alexander Karan of Climate Clever 02.08.2022

Mike chats with Alexander Karan, CTO of Climate Clever, where "You can't manage what you don't measure" is a mantra. Climate Clever is an API-first company helping businesses, schools, and homeowners in Australia manage and minimize their carbon footprints.  Climate Clever - https://www.climateclever.org/ Alexander's recent Article on APIs You Won't Hate: Modern API deployment options in the cloud...

An API for APIs with Gil Feig from Merge 01.06.2022

On this episode, Mike talks to cofounder of Merge, Gil Feig, about building a service that integrates with many APIs. Find Merge at https://merge.dev Gil Feig @GilFeig Merge is Hiring! Thank you so much to our sponsors: Lob: https://lob.com/careers Treblle : https://treblle.com/apisyoulove

API Data Privacy with Sean Falconer from Skyflow 30.04.2022

Mike speaks with Sean Falconer , head of Developer Relations at Skyflow IEEE Conference on Security and Privacy Skyflow blog Sean's article on storing SSNs Robinhood data breach  Sean's article on Software Engineering Daily, Why Everyone Needs a Data Privacy Vault Thank you so much to our sponsors: Lob: https://lob.com/careers Treblle : https://treblle.com/apisyoulove

The road to OSS Nirvana 26.03.2022

Mike is starting work at Stripe ! What the world looks like for Open API and JSON Schema going forward https://json-schema.org/blog/posts/json-schema-joins-the-openjsf Mozilla's 2020 Layoffs Writing for APIs You Won't Hate - https://github.com/orgs/apisyouwonthate/projects/4   Thank you so much to our sponsors: Lob: https://lob.com/careers Treblle : https://treblle.com/apisyoulove

Sledgehammers on the job site 28.02.2022

Links from today's show Phil's reforestation charity Protect Earth Posts on APIs You Won't Hate Contract Testing a Laravel API with OpenAPI Creating OpenAPI from HTTP Traffic API Tooling Akita https://www.akitasoftware.com/ Optic https://www.useoptic.com/ S erverless functions in JAMstack frameworks Remix.run API routes Next.js API routes Gatsby serverless showcase 11ty serverless Thank you so muc...

Seeing the forest and the trees in 2022 03.01.2022

Thanks to Lob.com for sponsoring APIs You Won't hate - join the lobster pod at https://www.lob.com/careers 🦞 Support Phil's Charity: Protect Earth Dark Sky's API is shutting down Personal Weather Stations: Ambient Weather Ecoping.earth - Tools to reduce your company's website carbon emissions & boost performance Squoosh.app - a great utility for resizing images for the web NEW POST! Creating...

The State of the API Address 01.12.2021

Matt and Phil are joined by Matthew Reinbold, director of API Ecosystems and Digital Transformations to discuss Postman's State of the API 2021 report, detailing various data points from around the API world from which specification people turn to, to how confident people feel deploying their APIs. They also discuss various topics around remote work, how APIs enable more remote work and what will...

Webhook can't tell you nothin' 22.11.2021

Should endpoints be named after the action, like /getThing /updateThing or after the resource with different HTTP verbs, like GET /things POST /things? What are the reasons to go with one or the other? Async operations with REST APIs - how do you do it? long callbacks, short callbacks polling pubsub What's the point of a Webhook? "Working with Webhooks" Lorna Mitchell @ PHP Barcelona 2019 link

We're back! 23.09.2021

Matt, Mike and Phil get back together after a wild summer vacay of drinks, sand, trees and getting hit by a car while out on a bike. We catch up with Phil and Stoplights efforts to reshape API Documentation as well as responsible OSS Community Involvement. Notes: Matt's photography site Stoplight Elements Stoplight Discord APIs You Won't Hate Community

All About the API Specifications Conference 02.06.2021

Matt is joined by Taylor ( @taylor_atx ) and Kin ( @apievangelist ) to talk about the API Specifications Conference (ASC). We talked about how the conference is shaping up, the kinds of talks they are hoping to put forward in the program, how it is organizing a conference under the Linux Foundation and how can you get involved with such an important, yet very niche, topic in our community. Notes:...

The Swagger of OpenAPI 05.05.2021

Sparked by this tweet , Matt and Mike have an informal chat about the whole Swagger to OpenAPI transition and why OpenAPI hasn't really been able to step away from the shadow of Swagger. We discuss ways communities members can help with pushing the OpenAPI naming over using Swagger, how SEO plays a fair bit into the whole thing and why naming things is just plain hard. 

API Gateways, Service Meshes, oh my! 12.03.2021

Matt and Phil are joined by API developer Hunter Skrasek, a friend of the pod, to talk about his experiences moving their APIs from a monolith to a microservices architecture and his team is utilizing API Gateways and Service Meshes Links: Hunter on Twitter API Gateway App Service Mesh

Sunsetting your API 22.02.2021

Phil, Mike, and Matt get together for a discussion about how to safely sunset an API endpoint with the end goal being deprecation. We take a look at why its important to be overly communicative about it, what an appropriate length of time is from announcement to deprecation and how you can do it in a way that doesn't make your team or external consumers angry. We talk about the HTTP Sunset Header...

Secure your APIs or why so much data was available from Parler. 20.01.2021

Phil, Mike and Matt sit down to talk about Parler and why their APIs were so great for hacktivists who wanted to make sure that the data was never lost. We talk about degraded services and circuit breakers, two big things that probably could have kept the data from being exposed as well as stripping files of EXIF data from uploaded images. We also venture into the topic of what is the role of serv...

Developing platforms for developers - Harsha Reddy from Wayfair 18.09.2020

Harsha Reddy, a Senior Software Engineer on Internal API Platforms for Wayfair, joins Matt and Phil to talk about what its like to build tools for developers that use a myriad of languages from PHP to C# to Python and some Java thrown in for a good time. We discuss how Wayfair empowers their developers to pick the right language for a job and then what kind of tools they employ to make their day t...

Stoplight and Developer Mental Health 24.08.2020

Phil, Mike and Matt get together before Phil leaves the UK in search of roads he can bike on. We talk about what is coming up for new Stoplight releases and then we take a sharp pivot to talk about mental health and how it affects Matt and what he is doing to take care of himself. Sponsors: Stoplight makes it possible for us to bring you this podcast while we nerd out about APIs. Check them out fo...

Maybe GraphQL isn't so terrible? A conversation with Marc-Andre Giroux 12.06.2020

A quick note before we get started: We recorded this episode back in April of 2020 when everyone was quarantining and making bread to post on instagram. Fast forward to now, in June, American cities, and cities around the world are joining in, protesting the systemic racism that has long been an issue in our societies. While our energy and focus turned to current events, editing this episode took...

The API Handyman Cometh 24.03.2020

Phil and Matt, both in a loose definition of isolation, find time to talk to Arnaud Lauret ( https://twitter.com/apihandyman ) and talk about API Design and Review. We discuss why you should spend time designing and reviewing your API and the process of reviewing API Designs before the code is written. We also ask Arnaud what he looks for while reviewing, the tools he uses to review API design doc...

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