From APIs to SDKs: Elevating Your Developer Experience with Automated SDK Generation
A talk given by Jim Bennett from liblab at the 2024 Austin API Summit in Austin, Texas.
APIs are everywhere and are a great way for developers to access your service. But not all developers want to access APIs directly. Most want to use SDKs in their preferred programming language using the tools they already know and use everyday. These not only feel more intuitive to a developer, but bring features like type safety, documentation, and code completion.
In this demo-heavy session, Jim will compare APIs and SDKs and show just how much a well crafted SDK can improve the developer experience. Releasing changes to your customer quickly is something every development team strives for, so Jim will go on to show you how this process can be automated, including in your CI/CD pipelines so that every API change can be released as an SDK as soon as possible with minimal engineering effort.
By the end of this session you will have a new appreciation for SDKs and understand that creating and maintaining these does not have to be burdensome. You’ll be ready to automate this process yourself and improve your own APIs developer experience.
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