The OpenAPI Initiative welcomes apiplatform.io, a productivity management platform that allows users to build and manage backend applications with no code. With apiplatform.io, users can create and host fully functional workflows and APIs to move legacy databases to the cloud.
apiplatform boasts an extensive client list including Lamico Systems and Site Lantern.
apiplatform allows users to go from idea to product quickly. Thanks to their fully automated but highly configurable model, databases can be efficiently migrated according to the OpenAPI Specification (OAS). By allowing users to modernize databases with speed, apiplatform lessens user costs without sacrificing quality.
We sat down with co-founder and CEO Muthu Raju to learn more about what apiplatform is currently working on, and why they joined the OpenAPI Initiative.
Why are you joining the OpenAPI Initiative, and why now?
At apiplatform.io, we automate all the steps in the API development cycle so that our users can achieve integration and digital transformation at speed. We automate API generation and deployment based on API Specification provided as input to our platform.
The OpenAPI Initiative is focused on creating and promoting a vendor-neutral description format. Therefore, we feel OpenAPI Initiative is the right place to collaborate and arrive at a description format for building business logic, workflows, and continuous automation in our platform.
In your mission statement, you talk about eliminating technology barriers. How are you doing this?
We automate the developer lifecycle processes for a given API Specification by generating the code for the specification, testing and deploying them to a cloud platform, and setting up a gateway for secured access control. So, the end-user doesn’t need to understand how to use the tools, platforms, services, and technologies to operationalize their API or invest their time in coding, setting up the continuous delivery pipeline, etc. One can jump from design to delivery of API for a given specification!
apiplatform.io developed the Covid19 Virtual Assistant to help people find and use COVID-19 data. How does it work, and how does someone access it?
https://covid19.apiplatform.io/ was developed and deployed in early 2020 by integrating the COVID-19 Dashboard by the Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) and Johns Hopkins University (JHU) along with a Virtual Assistant “GOVID” to assist people looking for food, medicine, online consultation, etc. This Virtual Assistance was helping people until the Indian Government authorized only a few private and government bodies to host such services during the pandemic.
What’s important about the new OpenAPI Specification 3.1.0 for apiplatform.io? What are the challenges for broader adoption?
OpenAPI Specification, be it 3.1.0 or any other version, will be the primary specification supported by apiplatform.io which means we automate the development lifecycle of API based on the specification. Therefore, we don’t foresee any challenge as such for the broader adoption.
OpenAPI Resources
To learn more about participate in the evolution of the OpenAPI Specification: https://www.openapis.org/participate/how-to-contribute
- Become a Member
- OpenAPI Specification Twitter
- OpenAPI Specification GitHub – Get started immediately!
- Share your OpenAPI Spec v3 Implementations
About the OpenAPI Initiative
The OpenAPI Initiative (OAI) was created by a consortium of forward-looking industry experts who recognize the immense value of standardizing on how APIs are described. As an open governance structure under the Linux Foundation, the OAI is focused on creating, evolving and promoting a vendor neutral description format. The OpenAPI Specification was originally based on the Swagger Specification, donated by SmartBear Software. To get involved with the OpenAPI Initiative, please visit https://www.openapis.org
About Linux Foundation
Founded in 2000, the Linux Foundation is supported by more than 1,000 members and is the world’s leading home for collaboration on open source software, open standards, open data, and open hardware. Linux Foundation projects like Linux, Kubernetes, Node.js and more are considered critical to the development of the world’s most important infrastructure. Its development methodology leverages established best practices and addresses the needs of contributors, users and solution providers to create sustainable models for open collaboration. For more information, please visit us at linuxfoundation.org.