Why Apiture Switched from OSS Generators to Speakeasy for High-Quality SDKs
Apiture
FinTech
/Speakeasy
Company Info
- Company: Apiture
- Industry: FinTech
- Website: apiture.com
Overview: Modern Banking Solutions Powered by APIs
Nowhere has the digital revolution been as furiously fast-paced as the financial ecosystem. To help banks and credit unions evolve with this ever-changing ecosystem, Apiture provides online and mobile banking solutions. The key to their approach lies in the name: Apiture.
All of Apiture’s solutions rely on the Apiture API platform. That’s why Chief API Officer, David Biesack, is always on the hunt for the best API technology available to his team, and why he was early to partner with Speakeasy to develop SDKs.
“SDKs are hugely important on both sides of the equation because no one really wants to code an HTTP API at a low level. For example, with a TypeScript SDK, we want to generate TypeScript classes and interfaces such that people have type safety to support them, and tell them when they've made a mistake.”
David Biesack,
Chief API Officer at Apiture
Challenge: Incomplete Support & Maintenance Burden of OSS Generators
Prior to Speakeasy, Apiture had a custom SDK generation solution built using the OSS Generators. However, they were always acutely aware of the limitations:
Challenges with Open Source Generators
Working with Speakeasy not only offered superior SDKs to what they were able to develop internally but also provided the Apiture team with a partner who cared as much about APIs as they did.
“The quality of the code we get from the Speakeasy SDK generation is much higher than the OpenAPI generator. Speakeasy is a great partner because you are very responsive to talking about features, how we want to represent SDKs, and how we want to integrate and have them work within a larger ecosystem of APIs. The support and responsiveness were highly critical to me with a partner for doing SDK generation. And support for the languages that we were most interested in.”
David Biesack,
Chief API Officer at Apiture
Solution: Making Your API a Joy to Work With
The Apiture team now has SDKs that cover the things they care about most, exposed in an interface that’s easy to work with:
Key Improvements with Speakeasy
- Comprehensive idiomatic error handling to simplify the API user experience
- Easy-to-use authentication to make APIs more accessible
- Dynamic runtime error checking to ensure client & server code is always correct
- A CLI-native experience to embed SDK creation in Apiture’s CI/CD pipeline
Speakeasy SDK Benefits for Apiture
The job of removing friction from your API is never finished, but using Speakeasy provides Apiture with tools that brings them one step closer to a seamless integration experience.
“My ultimate definition of developer experience is I want our APIs to be a joy to work with. I want people to get their job done and not be frustrated. That's the job of the ecosystem around our APIs: the documentation, the SDKs, breaking change detection, and so on.”
David Biesack,
Chief API Officer at Apiture
Results: Enhanced Developer Experience and Support
By partnering with Speakeasy, Apiture has been able to significantly improve both their internal development processes and the experience for developers consuming their APIs:
Internal Benefits
- Reduced maintenance burden: No longer spending engineering resources on maintaining custom templates
- Improved API discipline: Better OpenAPI specs lead to better documentation and better SDKs
- CI/CD integration: Automated SDK generation as part of development workflow
- Expert support: Access to a team that specializes in SDK generation and OpenAPI
External Benefits
- Higher quality SDKs: More idiomatic code for developer consumers
- Complete feature coverage: Full support for all API capabilities
- Better developer experience: Type safety, error handling, and authentication made simple
- Streamlined integration: Reduced friction for API consumers
Looking Forward
Apiture continues to work with Speakeasy to refine and improve their SDK offerings. The partnership ensures that as their API platform evolves, their SDK experience keeps pace, providing their banking customers with the tools they need to integrate quickly and effectively.
As financial APIs continue to grow in complexity and importance, having a reliable SDK generation partner allows Apiture to focus on their core strength – building best-in-class banking solutions – while ensuring their developer experience remains best-in-class.
