APIs are everywhere these days. As a VMware engineer with a broad range of products to support, APIs are ways to speed things up dramatically. Instead of clicking yourself silly, things can be done without seconds. Finding the documentation for all the different APIs can be challenging though, as there’s a PDF here, a knowledge base site there, etc.

Project Platypus is looking to change that by centralising VMware API documentation in a neat little container for ease of use. The presentation is handled by Swagger UI, which is pretty sleek. The project is hosted on GitHub and contributions … Read more