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September 17, 2025

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Spec Driven Development: Beyond the first feature with API Design First

In my previous article, I shared my learnings experimenting with “API Design First with GitHub Spec Kit and Specmatic MCP” with OpenAPI specifications serving as API contracts. In this follow-up, I take things a step further to test how the setup holds up beyond the first feature. The focus here is on two key aspects.…

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September 9, 2025

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Spec Driven Development: API Design First with GitHub Spec Kit and Specmatic MCP

I first came across Specification Driven Development (SDD) when I was exploring AWS Kiro. Coming from an Extreme Programming (XP) background (TDD, small batches, and
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claude mcp

September 2, 2025

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Guardrails for API Development: Guiding Coding Agents with Specmatic MCP

Using API specs like OpenAPI to guide coding agents sounds great. But in agentic mode, these agents build and test on their own — so
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life of api specmatic

May 20, 2025

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Demystifying API Lifecycle: Unpacking Essential Roles, Responsibilities and Their Challenges 

APIs are the invisible glue of modern digital ecosystems - powering microservices, enabling integrations, and accelerating innovation. But building and scaling successful APIs takes more
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A hand points at an API icon during a real-world adoption journey of contract-driven development.

March 13, 2023

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Contract-Driven Development – a Real-World Adoption Journey

The story of how a large financial services company adopted contract-driven development. Covering the situation on the ground before adoption and initial skepticism, and how
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An image of a woman experiencing microservices integration hell

January 17, 2023

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Integration Hell [Contract Driven Development – Post 2]

Integration Tests require the actual components/microservices to be deployed to a common environment. Because of this integration tests are able to verify the connections between
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2 parts of a bridge being constructed that are coming together but don't align - representing API mocks that don't align with reality

December 30, 2022

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The trouble with API mocks and stubs [Contract Driven Development – Post 1]

Over the last 6-7 years, I've studied several microservices architecture transformations. What I've realised is a lot of them are not bearing the returns the
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A group of people integrating microservices using contract-driven development.

December 29, 2022

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Microservices Integration Done Right Using Contract-Driven Development

Contract Driven Development helps us leverage API specifications as executable contracts using Specmatic to shift left the identification of compatibility issues thereby eliminating / reducing
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