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Engineering
November 6, 2018
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Leveraging OpenAPI for Awesome APIs

Mike Bilodeau

OpenAPI: More than Just Documentation

Want to take your API to the next level? Then you should give your API an OpenAPI spec! An OpenAPI spec is more than just documentation — with it, you can leverage your API to generate client code, do automated testing and more! During Kong Summit, Wordnik Founder Erin McKean gave an overview of the universe of OpenAPI tooling and showed how to go from zero to OpenAPI spec in just a few straight-forward steps! Watch the talk recording below to hear about all the amazing things that you can do with an OpenAPI spec.

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