Request // Response

Mar 18 2025 2 ep. 26 mins 1

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Interviews with developers and API technology leaders. Hosted by Sagar Batchu, CEO of Speakeasy. speakeasy.com

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API design ergonomics, coding on airplanes, and the true signal of good DevEx | Robert Ross (CEO FireHydrant)

Mar 18 2025 26 mins

Robert Ross (@BobbyTables) is the CEO of FireHydrant. We discuss the journey of building FireHydrant, the evolution of API design, and the impact of gRPC and REST on developer experience. We also talked about the role of LLMs in API design, the shift towards data consumption trends in enterprises, and how great developer experience is measured by a simple litmus test.Listen OnApple

Separating deployment from release, API-first development, and the future of developer experience | John Kodumal (co-founder & fmr CTO LaunchDarkly)

Mar 12 2025 26 mins

On the first episode of Request // Response, I speak with John Kodumal, co-founder and former CTO of LaunchDarkly.We discussed how LaunchDarkly used feature flags to separate deployment from release, offering fine-grained control for safer rollouts and experimentation.LaunchDarkly was an early adopter of server-sent events, and was a pioneer of the technology even before LLMs.Tune