Data contracts and the API mandate
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In 2002 Jeff Bezos issued the now infamous API Mandate which stated the following:
APIs
2024
Don't let table models become an API
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As a software engineer, we would never make our database directly available to consumers.
Data contracts at the cross-section of best practices
I see data contracts as being at the cross-section of best practices.
Prevent information drift by generating from code
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JSON Schema is the most widely adopted representation of JSON APIs.
How I'd decide to build on an API
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A great analogy for a data contract is an API.
2023
The similarities between software and data
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I’m writing this on the train back from Paris, having spent the last few days at the apidays conference, where I gave a talk titled “Data contracts: The API for Data”.
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