SE Radio 679: Wesley Beary on API Design

Wesley Beary of Anchor speaks with host Sam
Taggart about designing APIs with a particular emphasis on user
experience. Wesley discusses what it means to be an “API
connoisseur”— paying attention to what makes the APIs we consume
enjoyable or frustrating and then taking those lessons and using
them when we design our own APIs. Wesley and Sam also explore the
many challenges developers face when designing APIs, such as
coming up with good abstractions, testing, getting user feedback,
documentation, security, and versioning. They address both CLI
and web APIs.


This episode is sponsored by Fly.io.