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The Frontend of the Computer

Oxide and Friends

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The Importance of Open API

At Nexus are control plane, we're using drop shot, which is a HTTP library or a sort of a rest API library. Adam: I really believe in interface description languages and open API is flawed and broken. But I think it's the best thing that we have. Justin: We build the server, it outputs open API. And we know that that is actually what the server is going to do. The approach that drop shot takes is using open API as an output.

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