API Strategy & Practice Conference 2018

Automated generation of SDKs is a tricky challenge; on one hand you want to keep SDKs lean with minimal code and dependencies and on the other hand you want to allow API providers to customize the generated code according to the needs of their developers such that SDKs can be more than mere language wrappers of an API.

In this talk, we'll learn how code generation engines work, how an API wrapper is different from an SDK, and how production-ready Code Samples can be created. We'll also cover a technique to allow code customizations without letting API providers be bogged down in manual efforts.