Phil Sturgeon

Phil Sturgeon has been building APIs professionally since 2010. He has worked as an API/architectural consultant for all sorts of companies, from small startups to large organizations like WeWork. He wrote about his experiences in Surviving Other People's APIs and Build APIs You Won't Hate, and grew a community into the largest API-related Slack channel on the internet. Now Phil builds API design tooling at Stoplight, helping with architecture and open-source.

Keeping OpenAPI DRY and Portable

Bundling, dereferencing, and how to use them in Stoplight Studio and CLI workflows.

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Phil Sturgeon
Mar 11, 2020
Companies Supporting Open-Source

A look at the ways companies use and support open-source projects.

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Phil Sturgeon
Feb 11, 2020
Automated Style Guides for REST, GraphQL and gRPC

Ask 100 developers where a semicolon should go, and you'll either get 100 answers, or a all-on-all fist fight. To save this from happening at work, most folks implement a style guide, which beyond helping with consistent style to avoid new developers getting shouted at for "doing it wrong".

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Phil Sturgeon
Nov 7, 2019