Event-Driven Architectures & AsyncAPI We, as engineers, often forget that APIs are not just HTTP APIs. We got so used to think about HTTP and REST APIs that we even have to stop for a moment to remember what the API term means. API stands for ”Application Programming Interface”. It’s exactly on …
Introducing the AsyncAPI specification
(Originally posted on Hitch blog) Today we’re proud to launch an open-source initiative that we’ve been working on for months, the AsyncAPI specification. An OpenAPI-like specification for asynchronous APIs. The AsyncAPI specification is protocol-agnostic, so you can use it for APIs that work over …
Asynchronous APIs in Choreographed Microservices
(Originally posted on Nordic APIs blog) When building microservices you have to first make a decision: How am I going to manage service-to-service communication? Most developers will answer immediately: API calls. But then, more questions come to mind: Am I going to call services directly? …