# 01-21-2022 Weekly Landscape Report
This is the for the weekly report across five of the leading API specifications, providing a snapshot of these communities that can be used to develop awareness, quantify the scope of, and increase engagement within these communities.
## People
Identify one person each week who is doing interesting things within each of these formats.
* **OpenAPI**
* Name: Keith Casey
* Description: Head of Go-to-Market and Product Strategy at Ngrok
* Twitter: https://twitter.com/caseysoftware
* LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/caseysoftware/
* Github: https://github.com/caseysoftware
* **AsyncAPI**
* Name: Lorna Mitchell
* Description: Head of DevRel at Aiven, contributor to both OpenAPI and AsyncAPI
* Twitter: https://twitter.com/lornajane
* LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lornajane/
* Github: https://github.com/lornajane
* **JSON Schema**
* Name: Greg Dennis
* Description: Lead Engineer, Xero and JSON Schema contributor
* Twitter: https://twitter.com/gregsdennis
* LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gregdennis/
* Github: https://github.com/gregsdennis
* **GraphQL**
* Name: Uri Goldshtein
* Description: Founder, The Guild
* Twitter: https://twitter.com/urigoldshtein
* LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/urigo/
* Github: https://github.com/Urigo
* **gRPC**
* Name: Lin Sun
* Description: Director of Open Source at Solo.io
* Twitter: https://twitter.com/linsun_unc
* LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lin-sun-a9b7a81/
* Github: https://github.com/linsun
## Adoption
Identify one company or organization that has adopted one of each of these formats (head start available here: [OpenAPI](https://www.postman.com/postman/workspace/postman-open-technologies-openapi/overview), [AsyncAPI](https://www.postman.com/postman/workspace/postman-open-technologies-asyncapi), [JSON Schema](https://www.postman.com/postman/workspace/postman-open-technologies-json-schema/overview))
* **OpenAPI**
* Name: AWS API Gateway
* Description of Use:
* URL: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/apigateway/latest/developerguide/http-api-open-api.html
* **AsyncAPI**
* Name: Event Catalog
* Description of Use: Document EDAs
* URL: https://eventcatalog.dev
* **JSON Schema**
* Name: CloudFlare's JSON-powered Documentation Generator
* Description of Use: It's such a great write up even though not recent
* URL: https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflares-json-powered-documentation-generator/
* **GraphQL**
* Name: Open Social
* Description of Use: Decoupling and Switching to API-first; open source platform for building social media sites
* URL: https://www.getopensocial.com/blog/open-source/open-social-evolving-first-phase-fully-decoupling
* **gRPC**
* Name: Linkerd
* Description of Use: gRPC retries in Linkerd which is an extension of requests for post bodies
* URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4y7tE4A9U8
* Footnote: Linkerd is an open source service mesh for kubernetes written in Rust.
## The Beat
Make sure we are covering the beat each week and surfacing relevant information from across the communities.
### Any interesting issues? ([OpenAPI](https://github.com/OAI/OpenAPI-Specification), [AsyncAPI](https://github.com/asyncapi/spec), [JSON Schema](https://github.com/json-schema-org/json-schema-spec). [GraphQL](https://github.com/graphql/graphql-spec), [gRPC](https://github.com/grpc/grpc))
* **OpenAPI**
* Title: Open Community (TDC) Meeting
* Description: Reports from SIGs and triage of PRs and Issues
* URL: https://github.com/OAI/OpenAPI-Specification/issues/2860
* **AsyncAPI**
* Title: What do we define as a breaking change?
* Description: Defining the requirements and content of upcoming video series
* URL: https://github.com/asyncapi/spec/issues/688
* **JSON Schema**
* Title: ambiguous behaviour of additionalProperties when invalid
* Description: Well written issue highlights a fix in the next spec release
* URL: https://github.com/json-schema-org/json-schema-spec/issues/1172
* **GraphQL**
* Title: Question about grammar
* Description: Clarification of modifiers on Arguments
* URL: https://github.com/graphql/graphql-spec/issues/918
* **gRPC**
* Title: Allow tuning thread parameters for callback API server and client
* Description: Feature request to tune the thread count and stack size when using the callback API.
* URL: https://github.com/grpc/grpc/issues/28642
### Any interesting discussions? ([OpenAPI](https://github.com/OAI/OpenAPI-Specification/discussions), [AsyncAPI](https://github.com/asyncapi/community/discussions), [JSON Schema](https://github.com/json-schema-org/community/discussions), [GraphQL](https://github.com/graphql/graphiql/discussions), [gRPC](https://grpc.io/community/))
* **OpenAPI**
* Title: How should we determine the prioritization of work?
* Description:
* URL: https://github.com/OAI/OpenAPI-Specification/discussions/2693
* **AsyncAPI**
* Title: Create educational & technical video explaining AsyncAPI's main features
* Description: Defining the requirements and content of upcoming video series
* URL: https://github.com/asyncapi/community/issues/155
* **JSON Schema**
* Title: Restructuring Output Formats
* Description: Noodling through the implications of changes to output formats, planting a stake where there is consensus, scrunity on naming and consideration of existing parameters.
* URL: https://github.com/json-schema-org/community/discussions/63
* **GraphQL**
* Title: N/A
* Description:
* URL:
* **gRPC**
* Title: N/A
* Description: Most discussion occurs on a subreddit, but nothing for this week.
* URL:
### Any interesting news?
* **OpenAPI**
* Title: Use the OpenAPI Generator to Generate Typed Clients
* Description: SAP Cloud SDK
* URL: https://sap.github.io/cloud-sdk/docs/js/features/openapi/generate-openapi-client
* **AsyncAPI**
* Title: Kick off Community for V3.0
* Description: --
* URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLNgLB4-UnA
* **JSON Schema**
* Title: The Fusion of GraphQL, REST, JSON-Schema and HTTP2
* Description: From Wundergraph
* URL: https://wundergraph.com/blog/the_fusion_of_graphql_rest_json_schema_and_http2
* **GraphQL**
* Title: Relay V13.0 Released - Facebook's Open Source GraphQL client
* Description: Relay-compiler is now implemented in Rust and it replaced the JS version from v12.
* URL: https://github.com/facebook/relay/releases/tag/v13.0.0
* **gRPC**
* Title: Release of gRPC benchmarks
* Description:
* URL: https://github.com/LesnyRumcajs/grpc_bench/wiki/2022-01-11-bench-results
### Any interesting tweets?
* **OpenAPI**
* Title: Event Catalog OpenAPI plugin
* Description: List of features and pre release announcement
* URL: https://twitter.com/boyney123/status/1484529334627049473
* **AsyncAPI**
* Title: Another bi-weekly update about the AsyncAPISpec Spec ecosystem.
* Description: Report
* URL: https://twitter.com/smoyac/status/1483483219756560386
* **JSON Schema**
* Title: Canonical URIs in JSON Schema
* Description:
* URL: https://twitter.com/relequestual/status/1483818631398055938
* **GraphQL**
* Title: GraphQL Community Grant!
* Description: The GraphQL Foundation and TSC are launching a new grant program to sponsor community-focused work.
* URL: https://twitter.com/leeb/status/1469033975788171267
* **gRPC**
* Title: Kubernetes is starting to favor gRPC over other RPCs
* Description:
* URL: https://twitter.com/ahmetb/status/1471530310072475655
### Any interesting videos?
* **OpenAPI**
* Title: SwaggerHub Plugin for IntelliJ IDEA
* Description: Tutorial
* URL: https://support.smartbear.com/swaggerhub/docs/integrations/intellij.html
* **AsyncAPI**
* Title: Introduction to AsyncAPI for Apache Kafka
* Description: Talk delivered at ApacheCon
* URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YS7awB40NF8
* **JSON Schema**
* Title: Enforcing Schema in MongoDB
* Description: How to create validation rules using JSON Schema and MongoDB Query Language (MQL).
* URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEp7mL17fvU
* **GraphQL**
* Title: The Secret to Graph Onboarding
* Description: A demo of how to set up a graph to work with Plaid's REST API and make it easy for people to use. Focus on ease of use.
* URL: https://portal.gitnation.org/contents/the-secret-to-graph-onboarding
* **gRPC**
* Title: High-performance services with gRPC: What's new in .NET 6
* Description: gRPC runs atop ASP.net and this video describes improvements to gRPC in the release of .Net 6.
* URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXH_jEa8dUw
### Any interesting tools?
* **OpenAPI**
* Title: openapi
* Description: Generate JavaScript or TypeScript code from Swagger/OpenAPI specification.
* URL: https://www.npmjs.com/package/openapi
* **AsyncAPI**
* Title: Neuroglia.AsyncAPI.Core
* Description: A .Net 5.0 lib to read, write, build and validate AsyncAPI documents.
* URL: https://www.nuget.org/packages/Neuroglia.AsyncApi.Core/
* **JSON Schema**
* Title: python-jsonschema 3.2.0
* Description: Jsonschema is an implementation of JSON Schema for Python.
* URL: https://guix.gnu.org/en/packages/python-jsonschema-3.2.0/
* **GraphQL**
* Title: Relay
* Description: The GraphQL client that scales with you
* URL: https://relay.dev
* **gRPC**
* Title: BloomRPC
* Description: Inspired by Postman and GraphQL Playground BloomRPC aims to provide the simplest and most efficient developer experience for exploring and querying your GRPC services.
* URL: https://github.com/bloomrpc/bloomrpc
### Any interesting events?
* **OpenAPI**
* Title: 2021 IEEE Secure Development Conference (SecDev)
* Description: Analyzing OpenAPI Specifications for Security Design Issues
* URL:
* **AsyncAPI**
* Title: EDA Summit conference on May 4, 2022
* Description: Solace announced it has published an open source version of its PubSub+ Event Portal’s event discovery feature as a project called “AsyncAPI Discovery Tool.”
* URL: https://edasummit.com
* **JSON Schema**
* Title: N/A
* Description:
* URL:
* **GraphQL**
* Title: GraphQL Galaxy
* Description: Largest GraphQL on Dec 9 - 10 2021 has many excellent recorded talks.
* URL: https://portal.gitnation.org/events/graphql-galaxy-2021
* **gRPC**
* Title: OWASP LA Monthly Virtual Meeting - JAN 26, 2022
* Description: Peeling the Onion: Making Sense of the Layers of API Security
* URL: https://www.meetup.com/OWASP-Los-Angeles/events/282764029/
## Scope
Quantifying the scope of the communities week by week.
### Twitter Followers
Measuring the activity that occurs across Twitter
* **[OpenAPI](https://twitter.com/OpenApiSpec)**: 7,677
* **[AsyncAPI](https://twitter.com/AsyncAPISpec)**: 2,981
* **[JSON Schema](https://twitter.com/jsonschema)**: 820
* **[GraphQL](https://twitter.com/GraphQL)**: 70,531
* **[gRPC](https://twitter.com/grpcio)**: 15,735
### Github Scope
Measuring the activity occurring across Github
* **[OpenAPI](https://github.com/OAI/OpenAPI-Specification)**
* Github Repo Forks: 8,023
* Github Repo Watch: 880
* Github Repo Stars: 22,836
* **[AsyncAPI](https://github.com/asyncapi/spec)**
* Github Repo Forks: 164
* Github Repo Watch: 51
* Github Repo Stars: 1900
* **[JSON Schema](https://github.com/json-schema-org/json-schema-spec)**
* Github Repo Forks: 234
* Github Repo Watch: 101
* Github Repo Stars: 2,471
* **[GraphQL](https://github.com/graphql/graphql-spec)**
* Github Repo Forks: 1.103
* Github Repo Watch: 542
* Github Repo Stars: 13,606
* **[gRPC](https://github.com/grpc/grpc)**
* Github Repo Forks: 8,691
* Github Repo Watch: 1,353
* Github Repo Stars: 33,152
## Stack Overflow Questions
Measuring the activity on Stack Overflow using number of overall questions.
* **[OpenAPI](https://stackoverflow.com/search?q=openapi)** : 9,339
* **[AsyncAPI](https://stackoverflow.com/search?q=asyncapi)**: 126
* **[JSON Schema](https://stackoverflow.com/search?q=json+schema)**: 32,261
* **[GraphQL](https://stackoverflow.com/search?q=graphql)**: 43,919
* **[gRPC](https://stackoverflow.com/search?q=grpc)**: 16,055
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