Intro

We’re talking OpenAPI this week! Kris & Johnny are joined by Jamie Tanna, one of the maintainers of oapi-codegen, to discuss OpenAPI, API design philosophies, versioning, and open source maintenance and sustainability. In addition to the usual laughs and unpopular opinions, this week’s episode includes a Changelog++ section that you don’t want to miss.

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Featuring:

• Jamie Tanna – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
• Kris Brandow – GitHub, X
• Johnny Boursiquot – Website, GitHub, X

Show Notes:

• oapi-codegen is moving to its own org
• Creating a more sustainable model for oapi-codegen in the future
• I’m Now A Full-time Profession Open Source Maintainer
• Does the tech industry thrive on free work?
• Jamie’s GitHub Sponsors Profile
• How do you represent a JSON field in Go that could be absent, null or have a value?
• APIs as infrastructure: future-proofing Stripe with versioning
• Common Haus
• Workflow
• Introduction to OpenRewrite
• OpenAPI Changes
• quobix.com
• pb33f.io

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!