Phil Sturgeon

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As a techie I write about pragmatic API design & development, systems architecture, and am increasingly trying to use tech and the tech community to help unf**k the planet.

Reinventing API Design with Stoplight Studio

Two months ago I teased that Stoplight was about to release something big, and yesterday we announced Stoplight Studio - an OpenAPI and standalone JSON Schema editor, which just so happens to be visually stunning and completely free. Studio runs as a web app or desktop app, can work with

New Life, New Job

New Life, New Job

2017 was mostly spent putting out fires at WeWork as an API designer and architect, helping to debug and stabilize their tightly coupled deathstar architecture, which was constantly crashing for pretty much no reason, with absolutely zero fault-tolerance anywhere. A lot of 2018 was spent trying to figure out a

Picking the right API Paradigm

A while back I wrote an article called Understanding RPC, REST and GraphQL which outlined the "what" in how these various approaches differ. This got a few people thinking I was saying REST was drastically superior in all ways, which is a common conclusion when folks hear me

API Evolution for REST/HTTP APIs

API Evolution for REST/HTTP APIs

There are a lot of pros and cons to various approaches to API versioning, but that has been covered in depth before: API Versioning Has No "Right" Way. API evolution is making a comeback these days with GraphQL and gRPC advocates shouting about it. Whatever API paradigm or

Design-first API Specification Workflow Matures

Back in October I wrote Chasing the Perfect API Specification Workflow, which was a huge article about the state of the API specification world. One person trying to figure out a good workflow, in a sea of alternative specifications, with incomplete tooling, making it hard to see a solution for

Still Going on REST is the new SOAP

Still Going on REST is the new SOAP

One month after A Response to REST is the new SOAP and I'm still having a productive dialog with the author, helping him understand how REST works. I thought it might interest some of you too. Pakal de Bonchamp Thanks for the lengthy article - we unexpectedly agree

A Response to REST is the new SOAP

Enough people have asked me about the article REST is the new SOAP that I felt it justifies a write up. Before I get started, I want to be clear that I hold no grudge against the author, and if any frustration leaks out in my writing I'd