Learn what is coming with the first major revision to the world’s most successful API framework. Tony Tam, the founder of Swagger, discusses the new workflows, tooling, and a more descriptive specification that Swagger 2.0 brings.
5. Swagger is a complete API
framework
5
• Description format
• Reflection and
discovery
• Documentation
• SDK Generation
• Server-side codegen
• Server metrics…
8. How big a deal is this?
8
• 10,000+ production instances
• 2,000+ downloads/day of the Java version
• 500+ people in the Working Group
• 10,000+ developers using
• Thousands of devs contributing to OSS
MARSH FIRST
Introduce self. Introduce Tony.
A show of hands. How many of you know of Swagger. Keep them up.
How many are using Swagger descriptions or tools in their business?
How many of you have contributed to the tooling?
TONY
When most people hear Swagger, they think of Swagger-UI.
TONY: other UI examples?
http://www.wikia.com/api/v1/#!/Activity/getLatestActivity_get_0
https://www.callfire.com/api-documentation/rest/version/1.1#!/broadcast
We love swagger UI. It’s the biggest reason why people begin engaging with Swagger tooling. It’s automatic, interactive, and it breaks down boarders between teams. But Swagger is much bigger than just swagger-ui…
Swagger has become such a part of the landscape and culture that superstars like Ke$sha and Kanye West / Jay-Z have worked it into their songs.
The power of descriptions. SOAPUUI will introspect an API and generate tests. Ever done that by hand?
SnapLogic has 300+ custom connections for their integration framework. With the Swagger Snap, they now can connect to 10’s of thousands of services
Some deployments have thousands of servers
In May we kicked off a working group. By the time we wrapped up 2.0, there would be almost 1000 people who applied to the group.
From garage start-ups to fortune 500. We had an incredible response.
In May we kicked off a working group. By the time we wrapped up 2.0, there would be almost 900 people who applied to the group.
From garage start-ups to fortune 500. We had an incredible response.
You can now write an API spec with a kickass new editor. Apigee has contributed this to the Swagger codebase, and authoring an API spec in Swagger is already key part of Apigee 127.