Part 8 · 1 chapters · ~8 min

SDK Generation and Developer Experience

The spec as the single source of truth, generated reference docs and written guides, SDK generation with retries, idempotency and pagination built in, sandboxes with simulated outcomes, mock servers, changelogs, and measuring time to first successful call.

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Spec-driven everything

Measure developer experience like a product: time to first successful API call for a new partner, support tickets per integration, and the share of integrations that go live without a call with your engineers.

FROM SPEC TO DEVELOPER EXPERIENCE
one spec drives docs, SDKs, mocks and tests
OpenAPI / protoreviewed source of truthreference docsRedoc, ScalarSDKsTS, Python, Go, Javamock serverPrismcontract testsSchemathesis
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one source
The spec is reviewed like code and versioned with the service. Everything else is generated from it, so docs, SDKs and validation cannot drift apart.
spec reviewed and versionedeverything else generated