Mike Ralphson

Mike Ralphson @mikeralphson

About: OpenAPI Specification Lead at Postman, inc. Maintainer APIs.guru, OpenAPI Initiative Technical Steering Committee member

Joined:
Apr 6, 2017

Mike Ralphson
articles - 16 total

OpenAPI 3.1 - The Gnarly Bits

An in-depth look at the differences between OpenAPI 3.0 and 3.1

Learn More 2 0Apr 3 '23

Raspberry Pi radio alarm clock - part 1

Teardown and feasability study of upgrading a mid-1980s Sanyo radio alarm clock to an IoT device

Learn More 8 3May 20 '21

GraphQL is King

Wam-a-lam-a bam-a-lam-a - GraphQL is King

Learn More 4 0Mar 4 '21

How to get your web API noticed

Web API promotion and discovery explained

Learn More 17 0Jul 6 '20

Slate and the Future

The Slate v3 Technology Preview

Learn More 2 0Jun 23 '20

A brief history of Web APIs

A quick summary of Web APIs, both prior to and subsequent to the REST revolution

Learn More 153 18Dec 30 '18

A brief history of the OpenAPI Specification

In 2009, Tony Tam of Wordnik (an online dictionary service) had begun working on what would become...

Learn More 39 1Dec 17 '18

Why there is no such thing as the Richardson Maturity Model

It ain't what you think it is. And it's "very embarrassing"

Learn More 16 4Dec 13 '18

The Bluffer's Guide to PC Memory (archive)

An example of why it's so important to put a date on your blog posts

Learn More 7 1Nov 8 '18

Replacing embedded GoogleMaps with OpenStreetMap

Time to replace GoogleMaps

Learn More 20 3May 8 '18

Defining reusable components with the OpenAPI specification

A call to use fully valid OAS documents for included files

Learn More 20 11Jan 29 '18

The Hypermedia Hitchhiker's Guide to Standardised Affordance Metadata

A modest proposal to bridge the gap between REST and OpenAPI

Learn More 16 0Jan 22 '18

Node.js - a tale of two bugs

From a CI curiosity to a fix

Learn More 22 0Oct 11 '17

Comparing OpenAPI/Swagger 2.0 and 3.0.0-rc1

A deep-dive into the result of converting an existing OpenAPI 2.0 definition

Learn More 13 0May 23 '17

Comparison of various OpenApi/Swagger to Slate conversion tools

There's more than one way to skin an API

Learn More 3 3Apr 6 '17

Five things they didn't tell you were changing in OpenAPI 3.0.0-RC0

Diving deeper into the next version of the OpenAPI (Swagger) spec

Learn More 0 0Apr 6 '17