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# 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




