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The evolution of OpenAPI, AsyncAPI, and JSON Schema is important to what I do at Postman, but also to the wider API space. I find it helpful to understand what is happening across each of the API specification communities, and I wanted to also find a way to share what I am seeing with everyone else. Each week I spend time to create a single digest of what is happening, without having to do all the work I am doing each week. While I am sure there is much more going on that I am not tuned into, here is what I see as the snapshot of what I see happening across the API specifications.

Recent Meetings

Upcoming Meetings

Interesting Issues

Interesting Discussions

Interesting Releases

Interesting Blog Posts

Interesting News

Interesting Tweets

I used @microcksio in my @ApacheCon demo yesterday, showing how I can get streaming test data generated from an uploaded #asyncapi description file. Their excellent docs and in particular this post on the docker-compose setup really helped me get started https://t.co/UVglZCzOXM pic.twitter.com/24uD5eZNOa

— Lorna Mitchell (@lornajane) September 22, 2021

I’m excited to be talking about @jsonschema at @APISpecs #APISpecs2021, September 28-29! Are you attending? Register to join me: https://t.co/hNtqVoAvkp

There are THREE JSON Schema talks and one Open Discussion.
Here are some details 🧵 pic.twitter.com/VlXV8aFrEn

— Ben Hutton (@relequestual) August 20, 2021

#AsyncAPI #Hackathon starts in 8 days.

Read 👇🏽 to get answers to all the ❓ you had about the hackathon.

🆘 We're looking for ideas on how and where we can promote the Hackathon 🆘https://t.co/Fbc06yMYdY

— AsyncAPI Initiative (@AsyncAPISpec) September 22, 2021

Interesting Videos

Conclusion

If there is anything missing from my summary of what is going on in the world of API specifications, please let me know! As part of this process I am working to get folks behind the meetings, discussions, and other goings on to be more public about what they are doing so I have a URL to share. I am also working on updating the home page of the API Specification Toolbox to showcase how you can learn, implement, and contribute to each of the specifications—-once I have up, I will link to more from this regularly summary. My goal is to provide a single place everyone can go to get involved within the communities for each of the API specifications, but also stay up to speed on what is going on each week.