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akitasoftware.com
Company blog · akitasoftware.com/blog-postswebprogramming
akitasoftware.com is the company blog at akitasoftware.com, writing about web and programming. Since 2020, 21 different Hacker News readers have linked it 34 times, most often “Stop API Bugs by Inferring Data Formats”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (7) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Commenters mention Akita, a tool that generates API specs by watching live API traffic, as a comparison or alternative to other API tools. The linked pages are product and announcement pages, not essays.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 7 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- /6 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2022-06-22
- Stop API Bugs by Inferring Data Formats2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-09-29
- Drop-in endpoint observability for Docker and K8s2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-03-01
- How to Catch Breaking Changes by Watching API Traffic2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-11-02
- Akita Has Joined Postman2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-07-19
- Why aren't there more programming-language startups?2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-07-21
What Hacker News says?
Is this comparable to Akita? https://www.akitasoftware.com/ > By watching API traffic live and automatically inferring endpoint structure, Akita bypasses the complexity of implementing and maintaining monitoring and observability. > […] > - Export your API description as an OpenAPI spec. (Not affiliated, nor am I a user of either of these.)
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on “Show HN: Auto-generate an OpenAPI spec by listening to localhost”Submitted Taming Go’s memory usage, or how we avoided rewriting our client in Rust as a story · 359 points
HN discussionHow does your product compare to Akita? https://www.akitasoftware.com/
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on “Launch HN: Escape (YC W23) – Discover and secure all your APIs”Submitted Why aren't there more programming-language startups? as a story · 106 points
HN discussionMaybe https://www.akitasoftware.com/ could help.
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on “Launch HN: Activepieces (YC S22) – Open-Source Zapier Alternative”Submitted Catch Breaking Changes by Diffing API Traffic as a story · 100 points
HN discussionIs the next step creating and updating these diagrams automatically? That dream seems to come up and die in cycles over the years, but it may be possible now depending on the compute platform and network appliances you use. This push to automate by doing interesting things, like reading your network traffic ( https://www.akitasoftware.com/ ), could work here. I'm unsure, as is, how you fix the organizational and hum…
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on “Launch HN: IcePanel (YC W23) – Onboard engineers with explorable system designs”Submitted What Drop-In API Observability Looks Like, Pre-Launch and Post-Launch as a story · 49 points
HN discussionYou could try Akita Software: https://www.akitasoftware.com/ who exists in this space, but anecdotally devs I've spoken to who have tested that solution haven't loved it (find it hard/unintuitive to use). I assume a full investment (Data warehouse + datadog and alerting framework) would be overkill for your use case? This problem is something I've spent some time thinking through/working on addressing, because it do…
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on “Ask HN: What service do you use to collect and analyse your API data?”Submitted ChatGPT can talk to your AWS infrastructure footprint as a story · 27 points
HN discussionFYI, Akita was just bought by Postman: https://www.akitasoftware.com/blog-posts/announcing-akita-ha...
Comment linking /blog-posts/announcing-akita-has-joined-postman
on “Show HN: OpenAPI DevTools – Chrome ext. that generates an API spec as you browse”Submitted No Spec, No Problem: How I Autogenerated an API Spec for Notion as a story · 11 points
HN discussionThere's a similar, more powerful tool if you're into this https://www.akitasoftware.com/
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on “Show HN: OpenAPI DevTools – Chrome ext. that generates an API spec as you browse”Submitted Drop-in endpoint observability for Docker and K8s as a story · 10 points
HN discussionSubmitted Source Code Is Not the Whole Story: Understanding Software Through APIs as a story · 10 points
HN discussionSubmitted Stop API Bugs by Inferring Data Formats as a story · 10 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Catch Breaking Changes by Watching API Traffic as a story · 8 points
HN discussionSubmitted Test-Driven API Docs: Using Flask and Akita to Autogenerate OpenAPI Specs as a story · 8 points
HN discussionSubmitted Drop-In API Monitoring for Quickly Debugging Customer Issues as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted Automatically Detecting and Documenting API Endpoints with Akita as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted Launching Akita’s Open Beta as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Modeling API Traffic to Catch Breaking Changes as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Kube Inject Monitoring as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why Aren't There More Programming Languages Startups? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Observability Isn't About Logs, Metrics, and Traces as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Akita Has Joined Postman as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Developer Experience: Stuck Between Abstraction and a Hard Place? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Deep Dive: Learning About Your API Behavior on K8s as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted API Observability: The Way Out of “Testing” in Production as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why Watching Traffic (and eBPF) Is the Future of Developer Tools as a story · 1 points
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