Azure CLI: Call Azure REST API Directly

Azure CLI: Call Azure REST API Directly

The Azure CLI is a command-line tool built to give a native CLI interface for working with Microsoft Azure resources. The Azure CLI itself will make calls to the Azure REST API to perform actions that each of the Azure CLI (az) commands support. However, there are...
Swagger is now the OpenAPI Specification

Swagger is now the OpenAPI Specification

A while back I wrote an OSS Spotlight post about the Swagger project. In short, Swagger is “the world’s most popular API tooling”. It’s a powerful open source framework backed by a very large ecosystem of tools that help you design, build,...
OSS Spotlight: Swagger

OSS Spotlight: Swagger

There have been a few approaches to make sharing and consuming Web Services easier over the years. Many developers have worked with WSDL and SOAP services, as they were extremely popular in the early 2000’s and the beginnings of the .NET Framework. However,...