When and Why Your Team Should Create an SDK

Posted on 21 Apr 2025 - 14:10
Goals of an SDK The main goal of an SDK is to simplify someone’s life. That can be you, your team or your customers. An SDK exists so developers can focus on building their product, not dealing with low-level technical details. The SDK’s creator takes on the work of developing, evolving, and maintaining it so others don’t have to. For example, without an SDK, integrating any REST API service means handling API keys, building all the HTTP communication, managing caching, wrapping REST calls into reusable methods and more. For many developers, this is a distraction from their actual goal. It adds risk, uncertainty, and technical debt.