July 2015 Summaries

This guest article was written by Sacha Nacar, Developer Community Manager @ Voxbone. Voxbone is a cloud communications company based in Belgium with offices in Brussels, London, Los Angeles and San Francisco. Voxbone enables telephony applications to receive phone calls, text messages and faxes by providing inbound phone numbers in 50+ countries. These services are backed by a private IP network that interconnects with local phone networks in the countries where Voxbone operates. The company also offers value-added services like a WebRTC to SIP gateway. The API used is VoxAPI-V3, which allows customers to integrate number ordering and configuration functions with any front or back-office applications through approximately 50 endpoints grouped in 5 separate modules. SDKs help users integrate easily with the API by taking care of technical issues, allowing them to focus on feature integration without distractions. APIMatic has enabled Voxbone to automate the generation of SDKs, reducing maintenance time and facilitating a seamless transition from the previous API version to the new one. The use of APIMatic has improved developer experience and provided better support for customers with customised error messages within the libraries. Overall, APIMatic has been very intuitive to use and easy to implement in Voxbone's workflow.

APIMatic is a tool that automatically generates SDKs for APIs in various programming languages, allowing developers to consume APIs with less code and effort. This solution addresses the challenges of maintaining SDKs, which are often time-consuming and monotonous tasks. APIMatic has collaborated with Mashery to provide generated client libraries for their RESTful APIs, including Beats Music and Edmunds.com. The tool offers customizable code generation settings, enabling developers to tweak the code they generate. By supplementing Mashery's API repository with high-quality SDKs, API providers can attract more developer communities, while application developers can focus on more challenging tasks.