Sony

aid: sony
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/sony/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
name: Sony
type: Index
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
tags:
- Technology
- Consumer Electronics
- Gaming
- Entertainment
- Artificial Intelligence
description: Sony Group Corporation is a Japanese multinational spanning electronics, gaming, entertainment, image sensors,
  and financial services. Sony's developer-facing surface includes the Neural Network Libraries (NNabla) deep-learning framework,
  the Spresense IoT board SDK, Sonyflake distributed ID service, and a portfolio of Go and embedded-Linux open-source tooling
  maintained on github.com/Sony.
created: '2026-05-05'
modified: '2026-05-16'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
- aid: sony:nnabla
  name: Sony Neural Network Libraries (NNabla)
  tags:
  - Machine Learning
  - Deep Learning
  - Open Source
  image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
  humanURL: https://nnabla.org/
  properties:
  - url: https://github.com/sony/nnabla
    type: SourceCode
  - url: https://nnabla.readthedocs.io/
    type: Documentation
  - url: https://github.com/sony/nnabla-examples
    type: Samples
  - url: https://pypi.org/project/nnabla/
    type: Package
  - url: json-schema/nnabla-network-schema.json
    type: JSONSchema
  description: NNabla is Sony's open-source deep-learning framework with Python and C++ bindings, dynamic and static computation
    graphs, GPU/CUDA acceleration, and a model format for training and inference. Distributed under Apache 2.0.
- aid: sony:sonyflake
  name: Sonyflake Distributed ID Generator
  tags:
  - Distributed Systems
  - Open Source
  - Identifiers
  image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
  humanURL: https://github.com/sony/sonyflake
  properties:
  - url: https://github.com/sony/sonyflake
    type: SourceCode
  - url: https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/sony/sonyflake
    type: Documentation
  - url: json-schema/sonyflake-id-schema.json
    type: JSONSchema
  description: Sonyflake is a Go library producing 63-bit unique IDs inspired by Twitter's Snowflake but tuned for longer
    machine-ID space and longer lifetime. MIT licensed.
- aid: sony:gobreaker
  name: Sony gobreaker Circuit Breaker
  tags:
  - Resilience
  - Open Source
  - Microservices
  image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
  humanURL: https://github.com/sony/gobreaker
  properties:
  - url: https://github.com/sony/gobreaker
    type: SourceCode
  - url: https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/sony/gobreaker
    type: Documentation
  description: gobreaker is a Go implementation of the Circuit Breaker pattern, widely used in microservice resilience designs.
    MIT licensed.
- aid: sony:spresense-sdk
  name: Sony Spresense SDK
  tags:
  - IoT
  - Embedded
  - Edge Computing
  - SDK
  image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
  humanURL: https://developer.sony.com/spresense/
  properties:
  - url: https://github.com/sonydevworld/spresense
    type: SourceCode
  - url: https://developer.sony.com/spresense/development-guides/
    type: Documentation
  - url: https://www.sony-semicon.com/en/products/spresense/
    type: ProductPage
  description: Spresense is Sony's hexa-core Cortex-M4F IoT board powered by the CXD5602 chipset. The Spresense SDK provides
    NuttX-based C/C++ APIs for multi-GNSS positioning, high-resolution audio, camera capture, and LTE connectivity at the
    edge.
common:
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/sony
- type: Website
  url: https://www.sony.com/
- type: GitHubOrg
  url: https://github.com/Sony
- type: OpenSourcePortal
  url: https://oss.sony.net/
- type: SpectralRules
  url: rules/sony-spectral-rules.yml
- type: Vocabulary
  url: vocabulary/sony-vocabulary.yml
- type: Features
  data:
  - name: Deep Learning Framework
    description: NNabla provides dynamic and static computation graphs for training and inference
  - name: Distributed ID Generation
    description: Sonyflake mints 63-bit time-ordered unique IDs across distributed nodes
  - name: Circuit Breaker Resilience
    description: gobreaker brings circuit-breaker resilience to Go microservice fleets
  - name: Edge IoT Compute
    description: Spresense delivers hexa-core Cortex-M4F compute with GNSS, audio, and LTE
  - name: Open Source Licensing
    description: Sony publishes most libraries under Apache 2.0 or MIT
- type: UseCases
  data:
  - name: ML Model Training
    description: Train and deploy deep-learning models with NNabla on GPUs and embedded devices
  - name: Globally Unique IDs
    description: Generate guaranteed-unique identifiers for events, orders, and records
  - name: Resilient Microservices
    description: Use gobreaker to prevent cascading failures in distributed services
  - name: IoT Sensing and Positioning
    description: Build asset tracking, agricultural sensing, and infrastructure inspection with Spresense
  - name: Edge AI Inference
    description: Combine NNabla and Spresense to run inference at the edge with low power
- type: Integrations
  data:
  - name: Python Ecosystem
    description: NNabla integrates with NumPy, PyTorch comparators, and ONNX export
  - name: Go Ecosystem
    description: Sonyflake and gobreaker are widely adopted Go libraries
  - name: Arduino IDE
    description: Spresense ships an Arduino-compatible toolchain in addition to the NuttX SDK
  - name: CUDA
    description: NNabla can target NVIDIA CUDA-enabled GPUs for accelerated training
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com