API Design Matters
David BiesackExploring API Design and Developer Experience matters large and small
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API Design Matters is Moving!
It may look like I’ve been absent from API Design Matters for a while (well, I have…) but I’ve been traveling the summer and fall of 2025, as well as moving homes, and my company was also recently acquired (October 2025), so I’ve been a bit...
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API Design Antipattern: Leaky Abstractions
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The API Team Mantra
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From Here to There, from Where to Here
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David Biesack is Chief API Officer at Apiture. David has over thirty years of industry experience creating reusable, robust, and elegant software. He strives to make software [development|developers] better, stronger, faster.
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