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Be a user of your own API #17

Closed konklone closed 10 years ago

konklone commented 10 years ago

A strong recommendation that API producers should, if at all possible, have an in-house product that is itself a client of the API. "Dogfooding" may be a cliche, but it's an important grounding effect, and keeps the API design from veering off into theory and premature optimization.

adelevie commented 10 years ago

Does writing a client lib against your own API count?

konklone commented 10 years ago

No, not really.

gbinal commented 10 years ago

Agreed. The importance is to have it be something that your own team relies on. A client library is more along the lines of what the team is still offering out to the community.