March 2015 - Episode 2: Catching up with Tony Tam (Reverb) - a podcast by APIsUncensored

from 2015-03-06T23:58:54

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In this episode, we catch up with Tony Tam, CEO of Reverb and creator of swagger.

0:00-2:24 Intros and House Rules (and obligatory complaints about cold snowy Boston)
2:25-6:34 How are things at Reverb and Wordnik? (and a little bit about adopting words)
6:35- 27:30 swagger - how does it compare to the other formats, taglines, benefit of community and contributors, tony shares his secret to success and uses the word "asymptotic" (look that up!), ole enlightens us about how swagger is like the GoPro of description formats
27:31- 33:55 future of swagger and some cool stuff added to swagger 2.0
33:56 - 46:20 Misconceptions about APIs (and maybe some TMI about Lorinda's family)
46:21 - 52:09 API News, where we pick our favorite news stories of the month
52:09 - 53:04 Wrap up

Resources:
swagger - http://swagger.io
swagger.ed - https://github.com/chefArchitect/swagger.ed
Alchemy API - alchemyapi.com
Tesla performance update - http://www.roadandtrack.com/new-cars/car-technology/news/a24885/a-software-update-will-make-the-tesla-model-s-p85d-even-faster/

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