datagen VS public-apis

For fake data, shameless plug for https://github.com/MaterializeInc/datagen/tree/main

Building and testing a real-time fraud detection application requires a continuous stream of realistic data. But generating that data can be a challenge. That's why we recently created the Datagen CLI, a simple tool that helps you create believable fake data using the FakerJS API.

Generate fake data with a normalized schema of your choosing with this tool from Materialize, then denormalize it and build a warehouse model.

For inspirations on what type of agents I should build, I turned to the Public APIs GitHub repository which has a curated lists of free APIs. I narrowed my search for an API that does not require sign-up or an API key and returns useful information. I ultimately decided to use the Free Currency Exchange Rates API, which seemed promising upon some basic testing.

✅ public-apis/public-apis : https://github.com/public-apis/public-apis

Public-Apis Github Repo — A list of free public APIs.

Interesting thread at https://github.com/public-apis/public-apis/issues/3104

Use curl to access a free public API and get a random joke, cat fact, or whatever.

I remember the forking of https://github.com/public-apis/public-apis and the long git issue discussions. The company owning the repository stopped maintaining it but didn't give up control either. Over the years you've put in a lot of work in publicapis.dev and that is much appreciated.

Also, that isn't really a list of "contributors", but of "organisations with the most stars". Those are different things.

For example "public-apis"[1] didn't "contribute" anything as that's not a person, and looking at GitHub[2] there are a bunch of substantial contributors (the person who created the organisation/repo only has 12 commits by the way);

[1]: https://opensource-heroes.com/o/public-apis

[2]: https://github.com/public-apis/public-apis/graphs/contributo...