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Speakeasy vs OpenAPI/Swagger Generator
Comparing Speakeasy's OpenAPI/Swagger SDK generators with the openapi-generator project
Sagar Batchu
January 10, 2025
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In Depth: Speakeasy vs Stainless
A detailed breakdown of the differences between Speakeasy and Stainless, two popular SDK-generation tools.
Nolan Sullivan
January 10, 2025
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Designing your API: Find the RESTful sweet spot
Learn to make practical API design decisions that will help you create a better developer experience.
Sagar Batchu
January 1, 2025
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Choosing your Python REST API framework
We compare the most popular Python frameworks for building REST APIs.
Nolan Di Mare Sullivan
December 9, 2024
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Contract testing with OpenAPI
Learn how to implement contract testing with OpenAPI to ensure consistency across distributed systems and catch breaking changes early in development.
Brian Flad
September 30, 2024
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Type Safety in Python: Pydantic vs. Data Classes vs. Annotations vs. TypedDicts
Runtime errors can break your Python code. Learn how to enforce type safety with Pydantic, data classes, annotations and TypedDicts.
Tristan Cartledge
August 29, 2024
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Python HTTP Clients: Requests vs. HTTPX vs. AIOHTTP
Learn about the differences between Requests, HTTPX, and AIOHTTP, and when to use each library for your Python projects.
Georges Haidar
August 24, 2024
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Designing REST APIs: Responses Your Users Expect
Practical strategies for designing efficient, informative, and user-friendly API responses.
Nolan Sullivan
August 6, 2024
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How to Build an SDK in PHP
A detailed guide on how to build an SDK in PHP, including considerations for developer experience, designing resources, working with parameters, building HTTP requests, pagination, and more.
Steve McDougall
May 1, 2024
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How To Build A Best In Class Python SDK
This tutorial demonstrates one way to code and package a Python SDK.
Tristan Cartledge
April 29, 2024
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Type Faith vs Type Safe
Type Faith vs Type Safe. What's the difference and why it matters.
Sagar Batchu
April 16, 2024
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SDK Best Practices
Best practices to apply when designing SDKs for your API.
Sagar Batchu
March 21, 2024
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How To Create a Terraform Provider — a Guide for Absolute Beginners
Learn the basics of creating a Terraform provider from scratch
Tristan Cartledge
March 13, 2024
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Game Dev & The Rise of Developer Experience
A look at Speakeasy customer, Hathora, and why DevEx is picking up steam in the gaming industry.
Tristan Cartledge
March 7, 2024
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Building SDKs for internal APIs: How to Boost developer velocity
How internal SDKs can improve developer velocity, boost overall business growth, and improve developer satisfaction.
Nolan Sullivan
November 23, 2023
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How to build SDKs for your API
We'll summarize the different options you have for building SDKs that make integrating with your API friction-free and awesome
Simon Yu
July 12, 2023
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APIs vs. SDKs: Key Differences, Use Cases, and Best Practices
Explore the core differences between APIs and SDKs, learn real-world use cases, and discover best practices for seamless integration and faster development.
Simon Yu
April 13, 2023
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API Experts - APIs to Support your Customers
Mathias Vagni, Plain's CTO & Co-founder discusses API-first development and the novel DevEx they've built to support their API.
Nolan Sullivan
January 31, 2023
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Guide to API Auth & A Novel Approach
A deep dive on the approaches to API Auth, and a novel approach we tried.
Thomas Rooney
January 20, 2023
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API Experts - APIs that Move Money
Jack Reed, software engineer at Increase, discusses how the company has built out APIs that helps people build banks.
Nolan Sullivan
January 4, 2023
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Definitive Guide to API DevEx Portals
A definitive guide to building an API DevEx Portal for your API users.
Sagar Batchu
November 18, 2022
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API Experts - Shipping APIs for Global Shipping
Find out how Flexport is building an API platform to make global trade easy for everyone.
Nolan Sullivan
October 27, 2022
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API Experts - APIs to Fight Fraud
Clarence Chio, the CTO of Unit21, discusses how the company expanded their product from a pure web app to include a very popular API interface.
Nolan Sullivan
September 20, 2022
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API Experts - APIs That Build APIs
Akshat Agrawal, API product manager, discusses how to PM an API and how to reduce the 'time to wow' of your API.
Nolan Sullivan
September 15, 2022
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API Experts - Why an API Platform is important
Roopak Venkatakrishnan, Director of Engineering at Bolt, explains why it's important to have an API platform & how to make the development seamless.
Nolan Sullivan
August 4, 2022
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The Speakeasy API Landscape
Our thoughts around the day-to-day challenges facing developers on the ground as they build and manage their APIs.
Sagar Batchu
June 30, 2022
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API Ops - The Difficulties In Monitoring API Usage
API monitoring shouldn't be difficult. Speakeasy gives you the proper tooling to reduce API management pain. Learn how we can improve your API monitoring.
Nolan Sullivan
May 23, 2022
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More APIs, Less Complexity
To speed up new product and business creation, we need to simplify API development, maintenance, and usage for developers.
Sagar Batchu
May 13, 2022