API Discovery: Can we do better?
I find it strange that people regard APIs as their own thing. I have never &quot;searched the web&quot; for &quot;email APIs&quot;, in fact that whole sentence just sounds amateurish. Similarly what is all this tooling he refers to? WTF is an &quot;API console&quot;? Is that not curl?<p>One time, while interviewing a candidate, I picked a random buzzword on his resume (which happened to be API) and asked him to talk about it for a bit. He immediately launched into a mini-rant about all these crazy details with APIs that seemed to be foregone conclusions. Do people actually agonize over whether the API speaks XML or JSON? Or fret over the lack of a console? Are we talking about the same thing? You have an endpoint, you send it a request, you get back some data. WOW SO HARD!