Tyk and the Quiet Superpower of Extending OpenAPI

Extending the OpenAPI specification is a widely used, but seldom talked about superpower of the specification. People who aren’t in the know hit the wall with what the specification can’t do, and they move on and create a new specification — where those in the know understand the specification has become the lingua franca of API operations over the last 16 years, and craft their own extensions for the specification to make it do what they need it to do. I remember hearing that Tyk had gone all in on the OpenAPI specification, but honestly I was too busy with whatever my hustle was in the momen