https://master--suspicious-stonebraker-7d2d21.netlify.app/tags/api-design/ Recent content in Api Design on Nikhil's blog Hugo -- gohugo.io en-US Thu, 14 Nov 2019 18:09:19 -0800 https://master--suspicious-stonebraker-7d2d21.netlify.app/post/2019/library-design-gotchas-configuration/ Thu, 14 Nov 2019 18:09:19 -0800 https://master--suspicious-stonebraker-7d2d21.netlify.app/post/2019/library-design-gotchas-configuration/ A friend was complaining about this library they were trying to use that was failing to load a configuration from a file. The resulting dive into the code inspired this post about inappropriate choices made when designing how a library is configured. It isn’t my intention to pick on pyart. I appreciate the hard work the developers did to create it and open source it. It is just the example at hand.