APIs

In 2002 Jeff Bezos issued the now infamous API Mandate which stated the following:

As a software engineer, we would never make our database directly available to consumers.

I see data contracts as being at the cross-section of best practices.

JSON Schema is the most widely adopted representation of JSON APIs.

A great analogy for a data contract is an API.

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”.