Episode 2: Build Products for Other Engineers | SDKs, APIs & Open Source with Raghd Hamzeh

This is a podcast episode titled, Episode 2: Build Products for Other Engineers | SDKs, APIs & Open Source with Raghd Hamzeh. The summary for this episode is: <p>Building products for other engineers is a unique challenge. Unlike consumer apps, developer tools (SDKs, APIs, and Open Source) require a deep focus on <strong>Developer Experience (DX)</strong>, idiomatic code, and long-term maintenance.</p><p><br></p><p>In this episode of <strong>Making Software</strong>, Raghd Hamzeh (Senior Software Engineer at Okta and OpenFGA maintainer) breaks down how to balance community requests with platform health.</p><p><strong>What you’ll learn in this video:</strong></p><ul><li><strong>The Shift in Mindset:</strong> How your engineering process changes when your "users" are also engineers.</li><li><strong>Consistency vs. Idiomatic Code:</strong> Should a Ruby SDK look like a Go SDK, or should it feel native to the language?</li><li><strong>Handling Breaking Changes:</strong> Why saying "no" to a feature request can actually save your platform’s health.</li><li><strong>The Power of Automation:</strong> How to manage multiple languages and open-source contributions without losing your mind.</li></ul><p><br></p>