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Going Hard on Paid API Consulting & Writing

Hire me to help you with whatever API, HTTP, OpenAPI, or system architecture troubles you're dealing with.
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Phil Sturgeon
Tech

Are Frameworks Keeping Up With Modern API Requirements?

Over the years I've used about 20 different web application
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Tech

Reinventing API Design with Stoplight Studio

Two months ago I teased that Stoplight was about to release something
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Tech

Picking the right API Paradigm

A while back I wrote an article called Understanding RPC, REST and
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API Evolution for REST/HTTP APIs
Tech

API Evolution for REST/HTTP APIs

There are a lot of pros and cons to various approaches to
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Still Going on REST is the new SOAP
Tech

Still Going on REST is the new SOAP

One month after A Response to REST is the new SOAP and
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Tech

A Response to REST is the new SOAP

Enough people have asked me about the article REST is the new
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Tech

A Happy Compromise Between Customization and Cacheability

With endpoint-based APIs (REST, RESTish, SOAP, RPC, AJAX-ish junk, etc.
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Tech

Chasing the Perfect API Specification Workflow

Documentation is a nice thing to have, but it is often treated
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Green Tech

Representing State in REST and GraphQL

Representing state is a complex thing. At my last two jobs, it&
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Tech

You Might Not Need GraphQL

Do you like the look of GraphQL, but have an existing REST/
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Tech

GraphQL vs REST: Caching

Recently I wrote GraphQL vs REST: Overview, giving a hype-free outline
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