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liblab.com @liblab.com · 04/06/2025

Want to leverage liblab + Postman to expand market reach, optimize costs, and ultimately drive tangible business outcomes? Dive into the full details on our blog! 👇 liblab.com/blog/postma... And signup here to be the first to try out liblab in Postman: postman.com/product/int...

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liblab.com @liblab.com · 04/06/2025

The result? Radically faster integration times for your users. With professional, idiomatic SDKs instantly available from your Postman collections, developers can go from API discovery to their first successful call in minutes! What could that do for your adoption rates? 🤔

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liblab.com @liblab.com · 04/06/2025

Imagine transforming your Postman Collections into production-ready SDKs for all major languages in minutes, not months. 🤯 This isn't just about speed; it's about empowering your business to reach more users, faster. #DeveloperExperience #Integration

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liblab.com @liblab.com · 04/06/2025

Exciting news! 🚀 liblab is thrilled to announce our upcoming launch on the @getpostman App Market! This collaboration is set to streamline how you build and share your APIs. Get ready to integrate SDK generation directly into your Postman workflow! #APIs #SDKs

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liblab.com @liblab.com · 03/06/2025

Crafting top-notch descriptions is a crucial element in producing excellent #OpenAPI specifications, as they're the components of your spec that users will engage with most directly.

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liblab.com @liblab.com · 30/05/2025

"We wanted to provide SDKs for our API to shorten & simplify the integration process, but as a lean team didn’t have the capacity to build them. Liblab was key to unlocking our ability to provide SDKs to our customers!" - Al Fares @ CELITECH Read more: liblab.com/blog/case-s...

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CELITECH leverages liblab to reduce development cost by 50% in providing SDKs for their API | Generate SDKs for your API with liblab

CELITECH leverages liblab to reduce development cost by 50% in providing SDKs for their API

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liblab.com @liblab.com · 28/05/2025

The liblab team will be at POST/CON 25! Join us and the Postman team in LA on June 3-4 as developers, API leaders, and AI innovators discuss the strategies needed to thrive in an AI-driven world. Register now with our discount code for 50% off PMN50SPOT211: postcon.postman.com/2025/?utm_c...

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POST/CON 25 Conference | Postman API Platform

Get excited for Postman's annual conference, POST/CON 25. Hear from industry leaders and gain new skills through hands-on workshops, in-depth presentations, and conversations.

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liblab.com @liblab.com · 27/05/2025

Efficient APIs are born from OpenAPI! By establishing API definitions early, developers can tap into tools for instant SDK generation, creating more dependable integrations across all programming languages.

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liblab.com @liblab.com · 26/05/2025

Kickstart your first SDK with liblab in minutes! ➡️ Upload your API spec ➡️ Select your target languages ➡️ Let liblab generate SDKs tailored for performance.

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liblab.com @liblab.com · 23/05/2025

The choice isn't always clear-cut. Real-world giants like Stripe & AWS use both! Our post dives into why and offers a decision framework to help you weigh factors like timeline, team expertise, and complexity. liblab.com/blog/sdks-a...

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SDKs and APIs: Making The Right Choice For Your Usecase | Generate SDKs for your API with liblab

When it comes to building your API, you have two options: build an API or build an SDK. But which one is right for you? Let's take a look at the pros and cons of each.

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liblab.com @liblab.com · 23/05/2025

And when is an SDK your hero? 🦸 ✅ Need to integrate FAST? ✅ Tackling a complex system? ✅ Want built-in error handling & security best practices? SDKs can be a massive time-saver.

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liblab.com @liblab.com · 23/05/2025

When might you go API-direct? 🎯 ✅ Need MAXIMUM flexibility? ✅ Keeping dependencies super MINIMAL? ✅ Is the integration pretty straightforward? Our post explores more reasons!

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liblab.com @liblab.com · 23/05/2025

So, what's the difference? APIs are about endpoints; SDKs are a full dev package. APIs mean raw HTTP calls; SDKs offer pre-built functions. But that's just scratching the surface...

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liblab.com @liblab.com · 23/05/2025

🚀 SDKs vs. APIs: Which is the right tool for your project? 🤔 Choosing between them is crucial for smart development. We break it down in our latest blog post! But first a thread🧵

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liblab.com @liblab.com · 22/05/2025

Accelerate API integrations effortlessly with automated SDK generation. liblab eliminates the struggle of manual SDK creation, ensuring fast, compliant, and reliable results across multiple languages. Save time and focus on building, not maintaining!

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liblab.com @liblab.com · 21/05/2025

What's your favorite SDK and why?

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liblab.com @liblab.com · 20/05/2025

Compliance is non-negotiable in SDK generation. At liblab, we ensure every SDK aligns with industry standards to provide secure, reliable, and regulation-compliant API integrations. Focus on building trust while we handle the rules!

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liblab.com @liblab.com · 19/05/2025

Traditional SDK creation is slow and error-prone, while automated approaches like liblab simplify the process. Developers tell us they save time and avoid hurdles with tailored, up-to-date SDKs. Automation lets them focus on what matters: innovation and quality.

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liblab.com @liblab.com · 16/05/2025

Ultimately, well-designed SDKs are the main connection between your API and the developers using it. Prioritize their needs to foster a strong community and drive API platform success.

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liblab.com @liblab.com · 16/05/2025

An SDK in Python is great for data scientists, but what if your audience is primarily .NET developers building for Azure? Or Android devs who prefer Kotlin or React Native? Audience dictates necessity.

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liblab.com @liblab.com · 16/05/2025

Why? Because developers adopt tools that feel natural and reduce friction. An SDK in an unfamiliar language or one that clashes with their current stack is a barrier, not a bridge.

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liblab.com @liblab.com · 16/05/2025

It's not just about chasing popular languages. The number one rule: Know your target developers. Deeply understand their ecosystems and workflows before you pick any language.

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liblab.com @liblab.com · 16/05/2025

Thinking about SDKs for your API? The languages you choose are crucial for adoption and a great developer experience. But what's the most important factor?

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liblab.com @liblab.com · 16/05/2025

Community feedback drives innovation. At liblab, developer insights refine our SDK generation platform, ensuring it meets real needs. Your input helps us build better tools, empowering seamless API integration for everyone. Let's grow together!

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liblab.com @liblab.com · 15/05/2025

Pro-tip: Let users sort and filter the data coming from your API. Doing so can greatly decrease the amount of requests users need to send to get the data they need. You save bandwidth and they save latency. Win win!

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liblab.com @liblab.com · 14/05/2025

The flip side of that is when an API returns too little. Does common data retrieval take more than one query? If so make an endpoint for it!

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liblab.com @liblab.com · 14/05/2025

One of the best things to consider when making a solid API is separation of concerns. Does your endpoint do more than one thing? If so make it two endpoints.

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liblab.com @liblab.com · 13/05/2025

APIs that lack versioning limit evolution. Even if your v1 is at /api/endpoint(s) that doesn't mean your v2 can't be at /api/v2/endpoint(s).

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liblab.com @liblab.com · 12/05/2025

APIs & SDKs should focus on meeting customer needs rather than exposing your product's backend. APIs that mirror your internal database are often challenging for end users. Our DevRel Engineer, Anthony Lusardi, will be at API Days NYC this week to give a talk on this issue.

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liblab.com @liblab.com · 11/05/2025

Don't reinvent the wheel. Standards like pagination and filtering are the way they are because they work well, developers are familiar with them, and tooling is already built to handle them.

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liblab.com @liblab.com · 10/05/2025

Did you know that we've been slowly building a series of guides on how to add OpenAPI support to your existing projects? Check them out 👇 www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpZ...

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Generate an SDK in Under 60 Seconds with FastAPI

Get started with our FastAPI guide: https://liblab.com/docs/howto/fastapiOr take a test drive with a prebuilt project: https://liblab.com/docs/tutorials/gene...

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liblab.com @liblab.com · 09/05/2025

Best Practices: - Handle transient errors smartly by having retry logic with backoff. - Provide clear, actionable error messages. - Ensure your SDK tolerates unexpected fields, and all optional fields are marked properly.

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liblab.com @liblab.com · 09/05/2025

Pitfalls in SDK Design: - No retry logic turns transient errors into hard failures. - Silent failures and generic errors hamper developer debugging. - Tightly coupled API responses break SDKs with minor API changes.

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liblab.com @liblab.com · 09/05/2025

Building SDKs that stand up to real-world issues means focusing on fault tolerance. Don't let API timeouts, network glitches, or server errors crash user apps. Here's some pitfalls to avoid and best practices to follow 👇

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liblab.com @liblab.com · 08/05/2025

Unlock faster innovation cycles. When your API changes, ensure your SDKs across all supported languages are updated instantly, not weeks later. Automation makes this possible.

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liblab.com @liblab.com · 07/05/2025

Extra tip: pattern can be used within an OpenAPI spec to define a regex for validation

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liblab.com @liblab.com · 07/05/2025

Precision matters in your OpenAPI spec! Be explicit with string formats (date-time, password, uuid, uri, email). The format modifier is open so you can define your own format names and tooling can later use those format names for validation.

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liblab.com @liblab.com · 06/05/2025

Think API docs are enough? Without an SDK, developers face a checklist: HTTP config, auth flows, serialization, error handling... just to make their first call.

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liblab.com @liblab.com · 05/05/2025

Launching an API without an SDK? You're not saving effort, you're just pushing the burden of building and maintaining a client library onto every single one of your users.

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liblab.com @liblab.com · 04/05/2025

Stop the SDK maintenance grind! Use your OpenAPI spec as the single source of truth to generate consistent, high-quality SDKs automatically. Free up engineers for core API work.

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liblab.com @liblab.com · 03/05/2025

The "no official SDK" tax: Every user team duplicates effort, creating slightly different, potentially buggy client implementations. Centralize this work for quality & consistency.

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liblab.com @liblab.com · 02/05/2025

Situation 3: Bad network conditions Solution: Throttle bandwidth or inject latency for requests to the API. This allows testing SDK behavior, timeout configurations, and perceived performance under adverse network conditions.

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liblab.com @liblab.com · 02/05/2025

Situation 2: Error and Edge cases that are rarely returned by the API. Solution: Simulating Specific Data Payloads. Useful for testing SDK logic against edge-case data structures, values, or errors defined in the API contract but hard to trigger from the live API consistently.

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liblab.com @liblab.com · 02/05/2025

Situation 1: Live debugging is limited by authentication, access, or cost restrictions. Solution: Response Mocking via Local Mapping. A proxy can intercept an outgoing SDK request and substitute the actual server error with a predefined local response (e.g., 200 OK + mock data).

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