Schema-first API Design Using Typespec - Cailin Smith, Microsoft

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A presentation given by Cailin Smith, Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft, at our 2024 Platform Summit, October 8-9. TypeSpec is a relatively new open source schema language coming out of Azure. In this talk, I will introduce you to the basics of using TypeSpec, and how apps.methodscript.com uses a Schema-First API design, allowing for developers to skip writing glue code, while maintaining a gigantic client support matrix, minimizing bugs, and speeding up API development.

Schema-first API
Design Using
TypeSpec
Cailin Smith
Microsoft

Agenda
•TypeSpec basics
•TypeSpec
workflow
•How TypeSpec can
help you scale

TypeSpec as a
language
•Models
•Operations/
Interfaces
•Decorators
•Importing

TypeSpec as a
platform
•Libraries
•Linters
•Emitters

Appendix
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