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STC API Special Interest Group

STC API Special Interest Group

Making APIs understandable

  • Site and SIG Info
    • FAQ: About the SIG
    • API SIG Blog
    • Site Map
    • Contact Us
  • References and Resources
    • FAQ: About APIs and SDKs
      • APIs and SDKs — what’s the difference?
    • Websites and Web Articles on APIs
      • Examples of good API documentation
    • API Documentation Resources
      • Tools for API documentation
      • API documentation courses
    • Creating APIs
    • Standards

Websites and Web Articles on APIs

Documentation

  • Ten Essentials for Good API Documentation [A List Apart]
  • Ten Extras for Great API Documentation [A List Apart]
  • API Documentation using Swagger [Swagger.io]
  • API Documentation Made Easy with OpenAPI & Swagger [Swagger.io]
  • Documenting REST APIs using Confluence [Atlassian]
  • Documenting your REST API  [GitHub]
  • Document your REST API with RAML [RAML]
  • REST API documentation best practices [Bocoup]
  • Maintainable API Docs and Other Rainbow Colored Unicorns [Neil Mansilla]
  • API Documentation at Stoplight [Stoplight.io… has several other good references]
  • Five Questions Every Technical Writer Faces with API Documentation [Ed Marshall]
  • 7 items no API documentation can live without
  • Should I use tools that support the OpenAPI Specification? [TechTarget]

Development

  • APIs You Won’t Hate [blog]
  • API Evangelist [blog]
  • How to manage and grow your REST API without blowing it up
  • WeWork API Specification Workflow
  • Public API
    Strategies — What Bezos didn’t tell his team
  • The API Economy : Margaret Rouse [WhatIs.com] and Maxine Giza

Recent Posts

  • New links to reference articles posted
  • Great Medium site/channel on APIs: “APIs You Won’t Hate”
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  • Useful newsletter for API material
  • 2019 Summit presentations on API documentation
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