Tag: GraphQL

Episode 542: Brendan Callum on Contract-Driven APIs

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Episode 542: Brendan Callum on Contract-Driven APIs

Brendan Callum, engineering manager for the Pinterest developer platform team, discusses the “spec first” approach to API development and how it’s different from “API first.” Brendan speaks with host Kanchan Shringi about the challenges and advantages of adopting the “spec first” approach based on the launch of the v5 spec at Pinterest. The discussion explores […]

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Episode 463: Yaniv Tal on Web 3.0 and the Graph

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Episode 463: Yaniv Tal on Web 3.0 and the Graph

Yaniv Tal, co-founder of the Graph and project lead at Edge and Node, discusses the Graph, an indexer for blockchain infrastructure such as Ethereum and IPFS. Yaniv and host Priyanka Raghavan discuss the need for blockchain infrastructure, decentralized applications, systems of trust and different modes of payment. They compare and contrast “web 2” versus “web […]

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Episode 387: Abhinav Asthana on Designing and Testing APIs

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Episode 387: Abhinav Asthana on Designing and Testing APIs

Abhinav Asthana, a founding partner and CEO of the API development tool Postman, discusses API design and testing, where to start, which types of APIs to offer, what tools you can use, what features to expose, and which is his favorite API to reference. Host Gavin Henry spoke with Asthana about gRPC, GraphQL, RESTful, JSON, API […]

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