https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DuSS18NzjEw&t=96s&ab_channel=SAEAthens I was invited to the Life of Dev podcast and had a relaxed and insightful conversation on the API Designer role, software, AI and more

https://www.voxgig.com/podcast/episode-170-christos-gkoros-repeat-api-designer-at-postman Who said building robust, production grade APIs had to be hard? As we hope for all technology, the creation and design of APIs has only become easier and more accessible over time. This is due in part to today’s wonderful guest, Christos Gkoros, and his work at Postman as an API designer. Christos comes from a software engineering background and he speaks to us about his journey to his current role.

Don’t document the obvious: I see too many documents that contain sentences like “Name field - contains the name”. Tell me about what I may not know - restrictions on characters, how these are sorted, what if someone doesn’t have a first name, etc. Gregor Hohpe

There are three perspectives in software development that are not well aligned: academia, thought-leaders/influencers and the work being done in practice. Jean Young

Every programmer ever born thinks whatever idea just popped out of their head into their editor is the most generalized, most flexible, most one-size-fits all solution that has ever been conceived. We think we’ve built software that is a general purpose solution to some set of problems, but we are almost always wrong. It is three times as difficult to build reusable components as single use components, and a reusable component should be tried out in three different applications before it will be sufficiently general to accept into a reuse library.