Tam remained involved with Swagger, now OpenAPI, on the Technical Oversight Board driving technical aspects of the spec for almost two years and currently works at Apple, handling iCloud developer experience.Īs per the Swagger site, “The OpenAPI Specification (OAS) defines a standard, language-agnostic interface to RESTful APIs which allows both humans and computers to discover and understand the capabilities of the service without access to source code, documentation, or through network traffic inspection.” The Swagger specification was adopted by the group and rebranded as OpenAPI Specification in the process.įounding members of the OpenAPI Initiative included huge names like Google, Apigee, PayPal, Microsoft, Capital One, Intuit, and others. Towards the end of 2015, SmartBear launched the OpenAPI Initiative with sponsorship from the Linux Foundation.

OpenAPI Specification is the vendor-neutral industry-standard API spec supported by the Linux Foundation. In early 2015 Swagger was acquired from Reverb by SmartBear, with some big changes to come later in that year. People engaged with Wordnik’s portal and clamored for open-source status, and adoption of the framework by other companies took off. Everything that came afterward was, to a certain extent, a happy accident. The system was developed not to be an all-encompassing methodology but as the UI for Wordnik’s own API. It’s worth knowing a little about Tam’s history because it demonstrates Swagger’s relatively speaking, humble beginnings.

He would later become the CTO of Wordnik and move on to be the CEO of Reverb Technologies, Wordnik’s parent company. SmartBear maintains the Swagger tools at Swagger.io.Īccording to Tony Tam, Swagger is “a simple contract for an API that contains everything needed to produce or consume an API…Twenty pages or so, and that’s it.” And Tam should know, since he created Swagger.ĭevelopment on the ideas behind Swagger began in the early 2010s as the brainchild of Tam when he was the technical co-founder of a dictionary system called Wordnik.

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