I am increasingly tracking OpenAPI definitions published to GitHub by leading API providers I track on. Platforms like Stripe, Box, and New York Times are actively managing their OpenAPI definitions using Github, making them well suited for integration into their platform operations, API consumer scenarios, and even within analyst systems like what I have going on as the API Evangelist.
Once I have an authoritative source of an OpenAPI, meaning a public URI for an OpenAPI that is actively being maintained by the API provider, I have a pretty valuable feed into the roadmap, as well as a change log for an API. I feel like we are getting to the point where there are enough authoritative OpenAPIs that we can start using as a machine-readable notification and narrative tool for helping us stay in tune with one or many APIs across the landscape. Helping us stay in tune with APIs in real-time, and giving APIs an effective tool for communicating out changes to the platform–we just need more OpenAPIs, and some new tooling to emerge. https://goo.gl/dbKfDu #DataIntegration #ML
