--- layout: post title: An API Design Discussion With API Blueprint, RAML And Swagger Creators image: >- http://kinlane-productions2.s3.amazonaws.com/api-evangelist-site/blog/api-design.png author: name: kinlane tags: - Design - Blueprint - Swagger - API Blueprint - RAML --- REST head Glenn Block ([@gblock](https://twitter.com/gblock)) over at [Splunk](http://www.splunk.com/) asked a simple question on Twitter Wednesday night, Who is using Swagger? I responded, kicking off a conversation that a day later included Tony Tam ([@fehguy](https://twitter.com/fehguy)) of [Swagger](http://developers.helloreverb.com/swagger/), Uri Sarid ([@usarid](https://twitter.com/usarid)) of [RAML](http://raml.org/), and Jakub Nesetril ([@jakubnesetril](https://twitter.com/jakubnesetril)) of [API Blueprint](http://apiblueprint.org/). After the fact, the conversation may be a little unwieldy to follow, but it contains enough insight and nuggets of information, I feel its worth publishing and hopefully continuing in other formats. The conversation began on Twitter: