Internal APIs are ubiquitous in modern software development. However, the handover between the team building the API and the team that’s meant to consume it tends to break down - resulting in late feedback and considerable delays in shipping features and products.
In this workshop, we'll use WireMock Cloud's API prototyping feature, which allows developers to collaborate and iterate better from the initial design discussions through integration testing. We refer to this approach as mock-first API prototyping.
Uri is the Co-Founder and CEO of WireMock Cloud. Built on WireMock, the #1 open-source API mocking framework, WireMock Cloud is an API platform that enhances developer productivity by breaking dependencies on the 3rd party APIs, internal APIs and micro-services that delay their deliveries.Tens... Read More →
This presentation will include practical tips for crafting APIs that data scientists and machine learning engineers will love, along with code examples using Python and the FastAPI framework.
Data scientists are not like your average software developer. They want to use your APIs, but they have some unique quirks. To make them happy, you need to understand their needs: - Who are data scientists? - What tasks do they perform with your APIs? - What tools do they use? - What features are important to them?
Ryan is the author of Hands-on APIs for AI and Data Science, coming in May 2025 from O'Reilly Publishing.
Ryan Day is an advanced data scientist in the financial services industry. He is the author of the O’Reilly book Hands-on APIs for AI and Data Science that will be published in April 2025 (https://hands-on-api-book.com/)He is an AWS-certified solutions architect and member of the... Read More →
In this session, we'll dive into the world of secrets and configurations in a multi-cloud environment. Get answers to your questions like: What are secrets, and why are they so important for security? How do we use them effectively in our software environments?
We'll also discuss the critical role of configuration in the installation and integrating an oss tool. You'll also learn best practices for managing secrets and how templates for different configurations can accelerate adoption by streamlining setup.
Brian Vallelunga is the Founder and CEO of Doppler, which is the first secrets management platform for developers. Doppler empowers tens of thousands of engineering and devops teams to seamlessly orchestrate, govern, and manage their secrets across environments at scale. Brian has... Read More →
In an era where digital transformations drive business value, the importance of developing consistent, scalable, and robust APIs cannot be overstated. As teams expand and projects multiply, maintaining a unified API design can pose significant challenges. This presentation delves into the powerful combination of linting and reusable models as tools to navigate these challenges and ensure consistency across large-scale API designs.
We will explore API linting using the open-source Spectral project to enable teams to identify and rectify inconsistencies during design. In tandem we will navigate the need for reusable models, recognizing that the best specification is the one you don't have to write or lint at all! These two approaches not only facilitate the smooth integration of services but also foster collaboration across teams by providing a shared, consistent foundation.
Travis is an accomplished software developer, architect, and speaker. A tech enthusiast and blogger, Travis finds his niche in architecting and working with teams to compose highly automated service-oriented systems both in the cloud and on-premise. Travis currently works as a Distinguished... Read More →
Scott McAllister, ngrok, Principal Developer Advocate
Diving into the world of API gateways often mirrors a rocky romance, full of high hopes dashed by frustrating challenges—from the enigmatic configurations that test our patience to security measures and scalability that flirt with our limits. Yet, in the heart of these frustrations lies the potential for a love story as we uncover strategies and workarounds that turn sour experiences sweet. This talk will take you on a swift journey from loathing to loving your API gateway, showcasing how our biggest grievances can transform into the very reasons we value using gateways when developing and deploying APIs.
Scott McAllister is a Developer Advocate for ngrok. He has been building web applications in several industries for over a decade. Now he's helping others learn about a wide range of web and infrastructure technologies. When he's not coding, writing or speaking he enjoys long walks... Read More →
Director, Product Management, Integration Portfolio, IBM
Rashmi Kaushik is the Executive Product Director for the Integration portfolio of offerings that spans API Management and Gateways. Prior to this, Rashmi led the Data Privacy and Governance product portfolio in IBM Data & AI. Rashmi brings in-depth experience from her prior roles... Read More →
Director, Product Management, Integration Portfolio, IBM
Ram Menon is the Director of Product Management for IBM’s Event Automation Product Portfolio. He is working with a team of Rockstar PMs to shape the future of Events Portfolio at IBM and the next generation of Event Driven Architectures. Ram brings over two decades of industry experience... Read More →
Geospatial Information Systems (GIS) are pivotal across industries. Yet, many GIS applications remain anchored in outdated, monolithic structures.
Join us for an insightful session with Anthony Molzahn, CEO of Devii, to discover how cutting-edge microservices are transforming the GIS landscape.
Anthony, a pioneer in remote sensing, GIS, and API technologies, will share the value in making spatial data more accessible and commercially viable. Learn how these innovations are driving efficiency and growth in sectors like manufacturing, supply chain, agtech, energy, security, photonics, and IoT.
Anthony Molzahn is the CEO and co-founder of Devii, a company specializing in a middleware capable of automating the generation of GraphQL schemas and APIs for any and all SQL-based relational databases.With 16+ years of experience in B2B SaaS and startup environments, Anthony has... Read More →
Geoff Schmidt, Apollo GraphQL, CEO and co-founder Michael Watson, Apollo GraphQL, Developer Advocate
Forget what you’ve heard about GraphQL – it’s not a REST alternative, graph database, or just for frontend developers. GraphQL is about combining together the APIs you already have. In this talk, you’ll learn how a federated GraphQL architecture brings a platform approach to API composition, where it fits into the API stack, and what is coming next to help teams build tomorrow’s AI products and experiences on today’s APIs.
Geoff Schmidt is the co-founder and CEO of Apollo GraphQL, the leader in federated, open source, and commercial GraphQL technologies. The company has raised more than $170 million to build toward its mission of helping app developers help the world. Apollo’s open-source GraphQL... Read More →
Michael Watson is a Developer Advocate at Apollo GraphQL, where he plays a key role in educating and empowering the developer community to build modern applications using Apollo GraphQL technology. Michael is passionate about bridging the gap between development and advocacy, helping... Read More →
In a world where APIs serve as the linchpin of digital transformation, the journey often begins with a successful integration.
However, the narrative seldom explores the aftermath—what happens after the integration is completed?
The proposed lecture zooms in on API Egress traffic and into the less-discussed terrain of post-integration challenges and pragmatic solutions within the API economy.
Part of Forbes 30 Under 30 list, he's a 2017 Thiel Fellow. Previously, he was a Co-organizer of Hacking Gen Y. Iddo has been programming since he was a kid and continues to contribute to open-source projects. Originally from Haifa, Israel, Iddo is based in San Francisco, CA.
Event driven architecture provides a robust mechanism for microservices communication over an event bus, providing scale and durability of the flows. Event Driven Microservices in recent times have gained popularity because of these reasons and are especially useful when implementing asynchronous flows.
In this talk, we will discuss strategies and framework that allows building and scaling your microservices using event driven architecture leveraging open source Netflix conductor.
Viren is the CTO at Orkes, leading core engineering.Prior to founding Orkes, Viren led engineering teams at Google building products at internet scale with Firebase and Google Play.Viren built and architected Netflix Conductor during his time at Netflix and is the key committer to... Read More →
Roy Derk, IBM, Developer Experience & DevRel, Integration Portfolio Brian Pagano, IBM, Brand Technical Specialist, Automation Portfolio Although increasingly popular, numerous misconceptions and myths have emerged about GraphQL, leading to confusion among developers and technology adopters. See real-world examples, best practices and debunked myths to understand the true capabilities and benefits of GraphQL.
Developer Experience & DevRel, Integration Portfolio, IBM
Roy works with the IBM API Connect engineering, product, and marketing teams to create content and attract new users. He has over 11 years of experience in building, investing, and advising startups and developers, and is the founder of Hackteam.io, a platform that connects tech talent... Read More →
Brand Technical Specialist, Automation Portfolio, IBM
Having spent decades in enterprise software, Brian has worked in various roles, from startups to Fortune 500 companies on Wall Street. The last decade was spent at Apigee and Google, helping customers make good decisions. His current role at IBM continues that work by helping customers... Read More →
In a world where data sprawl across heterogeneous data sources is the norm, maintaining high-quality API-first development can be a significant challenge. Supergraph architecture addresses this challenge by enabling teams to build robust API platforms that manage complexity and foster productivity. This session explores how the Supergraph’s metadata-driven approach allows for centralized and federated governance while providing decentralized data access. By driving API design and runtime through comprehensive metadata definitions, the Supergraph ensures consistency, simplifies integration with governance tools, and enhances developer efficiency. Discover how adopting Supergraph architecture can transform your API-first development process, allowing your teams to deliver more value in a rapidly evolving data landscape.
Praveen is a Developer Advocate at Hasura with over 10 years of full-stack web dev experience. Praveen was a core contributor to open source projects like hasura/graphql-engine, gatsby-gitbook-starter and evangelizes modern data access practices. Besides the day job, Praveen runs... Read More →
In the modern era of the cloud environment, users needs to think about handling the temporary service interruptions caused by API and micro-services failure. As the applications interact with remote services and cloud resources, transient faults are more likely to be encountered. Events such as API’s throttle limits, connection failures, Quota exhaustion, power outage etc. can lead to such unwanted faults and not so good user experience.
The best practice in such scenarios is to come up with an automated and intelligent retry mechanism which can hide the temporary exceptions from the customers. Challenges faced while designing such strategy are fault identification, tracking Retry counter, appropriate log instrumentation and custom fallback. This presentation will focus on defining a smart Retry strategy along with specific guidelines to overcome such challenges gracefully. Through a deep dive into real world scenario, this session will walk-through the design/architecture of RESTful API’s to provision OpenStack VMs along with NoSQL. It will showcase the profound Retry Logic implementation using the Cron job and scheduler which can significantly improve user experience.
Most important things that people will learn from presentation:
- Transient failures in cloud native apps and how to utilize smart and profound logic to mitigate those challenges. - Walk through the workflow of a real life scenario to understand the best practices in integrating automated Retry strategy while designing API driven micro-services.
Vicky Deliwala is a Software Engineering Leader at Cisco Systems, who shepherds B2B API modernization. He is responsible to provide the technical thought leadership, establish innovative enterprise-level strategy and build highly resilient APIs for Commerce Workspace.12+ years of... Read More →
Managing data at Netflix scale presents unique challenges, especially with multiple applications requiring diverse databases. Traditional methods risk database sprawl, fragmented knowledge, and redundant efforts. Netflix's Data Access team addresses these issues with Data Abstractions, creating a streamlined data access layer.
Our paved path abstractions—KeyValue, Time Series, Graph, and more—offer robust APIs that hide underlying database complexities. Application teams simply specify their access patterns and requirements, and select the appropriate abstraction. Our platform then handles capacity planning, hardware provisioning, and database deployment.
Data Abstractions allow us to transparently switch databases, ensuring optimal performance and scalability as use cases evolve. This approach has enabled one of the largest database migrations at Netflix, completely transparent to the client. This innovative approach allows Netflix to maintain a high level of service reliability and operational efficiency, even as new database technologies emerge.
Learning objectives 1) Gain a comprehensive understanding of what Data Abstractions are and how they simplify database management by providing a robust data access layer. 2) Discover how Netflix's platform handles capacity planning and hardware provisioning based on application teams' specified access patterns and requirements. 3) Explore the architecture, scale, and novel techniques employed by Netflix to operate Data Abstractions reliably at massive scale.
Vidhya Arvind is a Senior Software Engineer at Netflix and a Senior IEEE member, specializing in building data abstractions. She is a founding member of Netflix’s data abstraction platform, which supports common patterns including KeyValue, Tree, TimeSeries, Table Metadata, and... Read More →
Rajasekhar Ummadisetty is a leading professional with over a decade of experience in solving distributed systems problems at scale. He currently leads the development of data abstractions at Netflix, focusing on scalable, high-performance solutions. Previously, Rajasekhar made significant... Read More →
Augusto Goncalves, Autodesk, Developer Advocate Manager
Well-designed and well-maintained APIs are the foundation of any successful API ecosystem program. In this session, we'll explore best practices for architecting APIs across various formats – REST & GraphQL – to deliver performant and developer-friendly services. Drawing from the experience of building a world-class developer program that supports thousands of active third-party developers, we'll delve into the architectural considerations and strategies for creating a cohesive platform that provides a seamless experience across all APIs.
Data Mesh Architecture is the fourth generation of the “modern data stack”. This approach focuses on the creation of ‘data products’ that feed data from data warehouses or data lakes back into operational systems. REST APIs are at the heart of this architecture and we are seeing a whole new set of use cases based on this approach.
Terence is the CEO of DreamFactory Software. Previously, he was the Director of Operations at DreamFactory Software. Before joining DreamFactory, led operations at TeamPassword, was a member of Google RedTeam, and served as a U.S. Navy Officer during Operation Iraqi Freedom.
How could we design an API for querying data across all kinds of sources? How could we describe complex queries that join data across them? This problem is tough enough when all the sources are, say, Postgres, but what about when we need to join data from Postgres to MongoDB? Or an arbitrary CSV file? Or even another API? How do we talk about data access and manipulation in a way that makes sense for all these possible backends?
In this talk, we'll discuss how we've been designing a solution to this problem. We'll talk about some of the challenges in keeping API design consistent across data sources, balancing simplicity and expressivity, and even making all of this performant behind the infinite number shapes that a GraphQL request can take.
Tom lives in Barcelona with his partner and their cat, Beef. At Hasura, he builds compilers from GraphQL to SQL across a variety of different backend data stores. Outside of work, he's a runner, climber, and cyclist.
Ram Gopinathan, Red Hat, Principal Specialist Solutions Architect, Edge Computing
This session will first cover what design first API development means and compare and contrast with code first approach. We will then go over how backstage can help API developers practice design first API development using software templates and github actions workflow. API designers after designing openapi spec in swagger editor can use the software template to provide information about the API along with the spec. Once the information is submitted, using backstage scaffolding capabilities required catalog entity files are created and added to git repo and a pull request is created. PR url will be displayed as output. Open pull request action will also trigger a github actions workflow to update the targets in the location file and since our backstage instance is configured to automatically ingest entities from this location as soon as the pull request is merged within a few minutes this new API will become available in the backstage software catalog. At this point development team can use a software template to implement this newly created API.
Geospatial Information Systems (GIS) are pivotal across industries. Yet, many GIS applications remain anchored in outdated, monolithic structures.
Join us for an insightful session with Anthony Molzahn, CEO of Devii, to discover how cutting-edge microservices are transforming the GIS landscape.
Anthony, a pioneer in remote sensing, GIS, and API technologies, will share the value in making spatial data more accessible and commercially viable. Learn how these innovations are driving efficiency and growth in sectors like manufacturing, supply chain, agtech, energy, security, photonics, and IoT.
Anthony Molzahn is the CEO and co-founder of Devii, a company specializing in a middleware capable of automating the generation of GraphQL schemas and APIs for any and all SQL-based relational databases.With 16+ years of experience in B2B SaaS and startup environments, Anthony has... Read More →
As AI becomes more prevalent, communication between API endpoints is expanding rapidly. The current API economy is just the tip of the iceberg compared to what lies ahead in an AI-driven future. In this landscape, APIs are crucial for enabling AI integration and readiness, fundamentally transforming application development.
Discover techniques for strategic AI implementation, responsible automation, and effective API management to establish an AI-ready enterprise. Whether you’re an API developer, AI practitioner, or business stakeholder, this talk will provide insights for effective AI orchestration and turning AI readiness into a competitive advantage.
Key Takeaways: - Practical methods to enhance AI integration with APIs - Using AI ethically with APIs - Insights on achieving AI readiness and avoiding pitfalls
Stephen Fishman (Fish), NA Field CTO for Boomi and author of "Unbundling the Enterprise," is a technologist who combines creativity, rigor, and human-centric problem-solving. He excels in aligning technology with business strategy, emphasizing iteration and cross-disciplinary collaboration... Read More →
Gaganjot Kaur Kang, Sony Interactive Entertainment, Software Engineer
This session is geared towards equipping software engineers, technical managers, and business owners with an in-depth guide to optimizing API performance. Attendees can expect the following key takeaways:
- Explore fundamental principles and top practices to grasp the importance of API performance optimization. - Acquire knowledge of API architecture patterns through real-world examples, aiding in the development of data-intensive applications. - Discover strategies for bolstering the speed, scalability, and reliability of APIs.
In today's micro services world, it is far too common for an API service to explode at an unbounded rate. The journey starts off as a shiny new micro service, which was designed to contain APIs for 1 business entity, becoming so heavily utilized that over time, it evolves and turns into a massive monolith, which contains hundreds of APIs for dozens of business entities. In the early days, new features could be introduced and rolled out within a few hours. Now, a small database schema change takes a few days or weeks to roll out. In this madness, how do you effectively and efficiently decompose and modernize your monolith? This session goes over a real world case study of how a group of 5 engineers decomposed a 160+ API monolith into smaller and focused micro services with 0 outages, 0 downtime, increase in overall service availability from 99.9% to 99.999%, decrease in latencies from 15% to 95% and ability to handle 90x more traffic with a reduced resource footprint (68% reduction in compute and 55% reduction in memory).
Parth is a highly accomplished Staff Software Engineer who is currently working on Developer Productivity at Cruise LLC. With a distinguished career spanning across industry giants such as Oracle and Microsoft, he has consistently designed, developed, and delivered cutting-edge cloud... Read More →
Bianca Tamayo is a Staff Software Engineer at Cruise, based in San Francisco. She has a broad range of experience, including full-stack application development, backend services, release and deployment, and building platforms. Bianca's passion lies in developing systems that simplify... Read More →
With the viral adoption of AI driven by commercially available LLMs newer venues of business have opened up. These new business models are driven by the likes of Co-pilots and virtual agents that bring in tremendous productivity gains across business workflows. Concepts like Generative AI and Conversational AI have already gained mainstream popularity. A new branch of AI that is gaining momentum is that of Agentic AI. This talk is geared towards identifying mechanisms that make inter-agentic communication possible and the ontology of such interactions solving for needed concepts of roles, tasks, memory, tools, context and prompts for a scalable and reliable inter-agentic business workflow.
Swanand has a track record in product and engineering leadership. He was a Director of Product Management at Adobe. His experience extends to roles at Microsoft, Oracle, and other Fortune 500 companies. A prolific writer, Swanand has contributed to the field of product management... Read More →
Microservices are currently the architecture du jour for building cloud native applications. This session will describe how microservices, each with their own database, can work together to ensure the data they maintain is consistent with the databases of other microservices.
Deciding on a pattern to guarantee data consistency is dependent upon many factors. This session will describe some of those factors and provide practical solutions to ensuring data consistency across a broad range of microservices.
At the completion of this session, attendees should understand that it's more important to determine the context and requirements for their application than just going with the current mantra. Hopefully this will lead them to consider simpler design patterns that have been discarded for no other reason than someone decided they're an anti-pattern.
Brijesh Deo is a CMTS in the Blockchain and Distributed Transactions Technology team in the Database organization at Oracle. He is passionate about distributed systems and cloud technologies and specializes in Kubernetes, Microservices, and Java. Brijesh has a rich industry experience... Read More →
Roundtables give attendees the opportunity to meet in small groups with API World, CloudX + Dev Innovation Summit speakers and industry leaders to discuss real-world topics relevant to you. These open roundtables are working sessions for in-depth industry conversations.
Adrian is a Product Engineer at Zuplo. Formerly a tech lead in the Facebook videos org, Adrian is now focused on making API development accessible to all.
Ed Olson-Morgan, Marsh McLennan, Core API & Innovation Lead
Driving value from generative AI isn't just about large language models. Integrating them with the right data, services and supporting capabilities through APIs is just as important.
Learn how Marsh McLennan's Generative AI Services project built an API-based environment to nourish AI experimentation and underpin AI impact through production applications serving their 90,000 employees as well as a world-wide client base.
Ed Olson-Morgan is an experienced technology leader with a diverse background across technical fields as well as business, consulting and strategy. He is currently the Core APIs and Innovation Lead at Marsh McLennan, where he is building a team of software engineers and technologists... Read More →
This presentation will include practical tips for crafting APIs that data scientists and machine learning engineers will love, along with code examples using Python and the FastAPI framework.
Data scientists are not like your average software developer. They want to use your APIs, but they have some unique quirks. To make them happy, you need to understand their needs: - Who are data scientists? - What tasks do they perform with your APIs? - What tools do they use? - What features are important to them?
Ryan is the author of Hands-on APIs for AI and Data Science, coming in May 2025 from O'Reilly Publishing.
Ryan Day is an advanced data scientist in the financial services industry. He is the author of the O’Reilly book Hands-on APIs for AI and Data Science that will be published in April 2025 (https://hands-on-api-book.com/)He is an AWS-certified solutions architect and member of the... Read More →
In this session, we'll dive into the world of secrets and configurations in a multi-cloud environment. Get answers to your questions like: What are secrets, and why are they so important for security? How do we use them effectively in our software environments?
We'll also discuss the critical role of configuration in the installation and integrating an oss tool. You'll also learn best practices for managing secrets and how templates for different configurations can accelerate adoption by streamlining setup.
Brian Vallelunga is the Founder and CEO of Doppler, which is the first secrets management platform for developers. Doppler empowers tens of thousands of engineering and devops teams to seamlessly orchestrate, govern, and manage their secrets across environments at scale. Brian has... Read More →
How could we design an API for querying data across all kinds of sources? How could we describe complex queries that join data across them? This problem is tough enough when all the sources are, say, Postgres, but what about when we need to join data from Postgres to MongoDB? Or an arbitrary CSV file? Or even another API? How do we talk about data access and manipulation in a way that makes sense for all these possible backends?
In this talk, we'll discuss how we've been designing a solution to this problem. We'll talk about some of the challenges in keeping API design consistent across data sources, balancing simplicity and expressivity, and even making all of this performant behind the infinite number shapes that a GraphQL request can take.
Tom lives in Barcelona with his partner and their cat, Beef. At Hasura, he builds compilers from GraphQL to SQL across a variety of different backend data stores. Outside of work, he's a runner, climber, and cyclist.
Scott McAllister, ngrok, Principal Developer Advocate
Diving into the world of API gateways often mirrors a rocky romance, full of high hopes dashed by frustrating challenges—from the enigmatic configurations that test our patience to security measures and scalability that flirt with our limits. Yet, in the heart of these frustrations lies the potential for a love story as we uncover strategies and workarounds that turn sour experiences sweet. This talk will take you on a swift journey from loathing to loving your API gateway, showcasing how our biggest grievances can transform into the very reasons we value using gateways when developing and deploying APIs.
Scott McAllister is a Developer Advocate for ngrok. He has been building web applications in several industries for over a decade. Now he's helping others learn about a wide range of web and infrastructure technologies. When he's not coding, writing or speaking he enjoys long walks... Read More →
Director, Product Management, Integration Portfolio, IBM
Rashmi Kaushik is the Executive Product Director for the Integration portfolio of offerings that spans API Management and Gateways. Prior to this, Rashmi led the Data Privacy and Governance product portfolio in IBM Data & AI. Rashmi brings in-depth experience from her prior roles... Read More →
Director, Product Management, Integration Portfolio, IBM
Ram Menon is the Director of Product Management for IBM’s Event Automation Product Portfolio. He is working with a team of Rockstar PMs to shape the future of Events Portfolio at IBM and the next generation of Event Driven Architectures. Ram brings over two decades of industry experience... Read More →
In an era where digital transformations drive business value, the importance of developing consistent, scalable, and robust APIs cannot be overstated. As teams expand and projects multiply, maintaining a unified API design can pose significant challenges. This presentation delves into the powerful combination of linting and reusable models as tools to navigate these challenges and ensure consistency across large-scale API designs.
We will explore API linting using the open-source Spectral project to enable teams to identify and rectify inconsistencies during design. In tandem we will navigate the need for reusable models, recognizing that the best specification is the one you don't have to write or lint at all! These two approaches not only facilitate the smooth integration of services but also foster collaboration across teams by providing a shared, consistent foundation.
Travis is an accomplished software developer, architect, and speaker. A tech enthusiast and blogger, Travis finds his niche in architecting and working with teams to compose highly automated service-oriented systems both in the cloud and on-premise. Travis currently works as a Distinguished... Read More →
Event driven architecture provides a robust mechanism for microservices communication over an event bus, providing scale and durability of the flows. Event Driven Microservices in recent times have gained popularity because of these reasons and are especially useful when implementing asynchronous flows.
In this talk, we will discuss strategies and framework that allows building and scaling your microservices using event driven architecture leveraging open source Netflix conductor.
Viren is the CTO at Orkes, leading core engineering.Prior to founding Orkes, Viren led engineering teams at Google building products at internet scale with Firebase and Google Play.Viren built and architected Netflix Conductor during his time at Netflix and is the key committer to... Read More →
Minimal API is a powerful tool for developers looking to build lightweight and efficient web applications. Unlike traditional web frameworks that can be cumbersome and difficult to work with, Minimal API streamlines the development process by providing a simple, yet effective, interface for creating RESTful APIs. With Minimal API, developers can easily define routes, handle HTTP requests and responses, and implement middleware with just a few lines of code. This results in faster development times, improved performance, and reduced complexity. Whether you're building a small application or a large-scale API, Minimal API is the perfect tool for the job.
Working in IT since 2009. Currently working as Head of Engineering at SoftwareHut and as an academic teacher at Białystok Technical University. Co-founder of meet.js Białystok. Book and articles author. Father, husband, huge H.P. Lovecraft fan and terrible poker player.
Geospatial Information Systems (GIS) are pivotal across industries. Yet, many GIS applications remain anchored in outdated, monolithic structures.
Join us for an insightful session with Anthony Molzahn, CEO of Devii, to discover how cutting-edge microservices are transforming the GIS landscape.
Anthony, a pioneer in remote sensing, GIS, and API technologies, will share the value in making spatial data more accessible and commercially viable. Learn how these innovations are driving efficiency and growth in sectors like manufacturing, supply chain, agtech, energy, security, photonics, and IoT.
Anthony Molzahn is the CEO and co-founder of Devii, a company specializing in a middleware capable of automating the generation of GraphQL schemas and APIs for any and all SQL-based relational databases.With 16+ years of experience in B2B SaaS and startup environments, Anthony has... Read More →
Geoff Schmidt, Apollo GraphQL, CEO and co-founder Michael Watson, Apollo GraphQL, Developer Advocate
Forget what you’ve heard about GraphQL – it’s not a REST alternative, graph database, or just for frontend developers. GraphQL is about combining together the APIs you already have. In this talk, you’ll learn how a federated GraphQL architecture brings a platform approach to API composition, where it fits into the API stack, and what is coming next to help teams build tomorrow’s AI products and experiences on today’s APIs.
Geoff Schmidt is the co-founder and CEO of Apollo GraphQL, the leader in federated, open source, and commercial GraphQL technologies. The company has raised more than $170 million to build toward its mission of helping app developers help the world. Apollo’s open-source GraphQL... Read More →
Michael Watson is a Developer Advocate at Apollo GraphQL, where he plays a key role in educating and empowering the developer community to build modern applications using Apollo GraphQL technology. Michael is passionate about bridging the gap between development and advocacy, helping... Read More →
Eyal Solomon , Lunar, CEO & Co-founder Iddo Gino, Lunar, Advisor & Investor
In a world where APIs serve as the linchpin of digital transformation, the journey often begins with a successful integration.
However, the narrative seldom explores the aftermath—what happens after the integration is completed?
The proposed lecture zooms in on API Egress traffic and into the less-discussed terrain of post-integration challenges and pragmatic solutions within the API economy.
Part of Forbes 30 Under 30 list, he's a 2017 Thiel Fellow. Previously, he was a Co-organizer of Hacking Gen Y. Iddo has been programming since he was a kid and continues to contribute to open-source projects. Originally from Haifa, Israel, Iddo is based in San Francisco, CA.
Eyal Solomon is the CEO and Co-Founder of Lunar.dev.He has an extensive background as a Cyber Security Engineer and product leader with over 10 years of experience in cyber tools, product management and sales.Eyal was also one of the early employees at a large scale Cyber Company... Read More →
Roy Derk, IBM, Developer Experience & DevRel, Integration Portfolio Brian Pagano, IBM, Brand Technical Specialist, Automation Portfolio Although increasingly popular, numerous misconceptions and myths have emerged about GraphQL, leading to confusion among developers and technology adopters. See real-world examples, best practices and debunked myths to understand the true capabilities and benefits of GraphQL.
Developer Experience & DevRel, Integration Portfolio, IBM
Roy works with the IBM API Connect engineering, product, and marketing teams to create content and attract new users. He has over 11 years of experience in building, investing, and advising startups and developers, and is the founder of Hackteam.io, a platform that connects tech talent... Read More →
Brand Technical Specialist, Automation Portfolio, IBM
Having spent decades in enterprise software, Brian has worked in various roles, from startups to Fortune 500 companies on Wall Street. The last decade was spent at Apigee and Google, helping customers make good decisions. His current role at IBM continues that work by helping customers... Read More →
In a world where data sprawl across heterogeneous data sources is the norm, maintaining high-quality API-first development can be a significant challenge. Supergraph architecture addresses this challenge by enabling teams to build robust API platforms that manage complexity and foster productivity. This session explores how the Supergraph’s metadata-driven approach allows for centralized and federated governance while providing decentralized data access. By driving API design and runtime through comprehensive metadata definitions, the Supergraph ensures consistency, simplifies integration with governance tools, and enhances developer efficiency. Discover how adopting Supergraph architecture can transform your API-first development process, allowing your teams to deliver more value in a rapidly evolving data landscape.
Praveen is a Developer Advocate at Hasura with over 10 years of full-stack web dev experience. Praveen was a core contributor to open source projects like hasura/graphql-engine, gatsby-gitbook-starter and evangelizes modern data access practices. Besides the day job, Praveen runs... Read More →
Managing data at Netflix scale presents unique challenges, especially with multiple applications requiring diverse databases. Traditional methods risk database sprawl, fragmented knowledge, and redundant efforts. Netflix's Data Access team addresses these issues with Data Abstractions, creating a streamlined data access layer.
Our paved path abstractions—KeyValue, Time Series, Graph, and more—offer robust APIs that hide underlying database complexities. Application teams simply specify their access patterns and requirements, and select the appropriate abstraction. Our platform then handles capacity planning, hardware provisioning, and database deployment.
Data Abstractions allow us to transparently switch databases, ensuring optimal performance and scalability as use cases evolve. This approach has enabled one of the largest database migrations at Netflix, completely transparent to the client. This innovative approach allows Netflix to maintain a high level of service reliability and operational efficiency, even as new database technologies emerge.
Learning objectives 1) Gain a comprehensive understanding of what Data Abstractions are and how they simplify database management by providing a robust data access layer. 2) Discover how Netflix's platform handles capacity planning and hardware provisioning based on application teams' specified access patterns and requirements. 3) Explore the architecture, scale, and novel techniques employed by Netflix to operate Data Abstractions reliably at massive scale.
Vidhya Arvind is a Senior Software Engineer at Netflix and a Senior IEEE member, specializing in building data abstractions. She is a founding member of Netflix’s data abstraction platform, which supports common patterns including KeyValue, Tree, TimeSeries, Table Metadata, and... Read More →
Rajasekhar Ummadisetty is a leading professional with over a decade of experience in solving distributed systems problems at scale. He currently leads the development of data abstractions at Netflix, focusing on scalable, high-performance solutions. Previously, Rajasekhar made significant... Read More →
Augusto Goncalves, Autodesk, Developer Advocate Manager
Well-designed and well-maintained APIs are the foundation of any successful API ecosystem program. In this session, we'll explore best practices for architecting APIs across various formats – REST & GraphQL – to deliver performant and developer-friendly services. Drawing from the experience of building a world-class developer program that supports thousands of active third-party developers, we'll delve into the architectural considerations and strategies for creating a cohesive platform that provides a seamless experience across all APIs.
Data Mesh Architecture is the fourth generation of the “modern data stack”. This approach focuses on the creation of ‘data products’ that feed data from data warehouses or data lakes back into operational systems. REST APIs are at the heart of this architecture and we are seeing a whole new set of use cases based on this approach.
Terence is the CEO of DreamFactory Software. Previously, he was the Director of Operations at DreamFactory Software. Before joining DreamFactory, led operations at TeamPassword, was a member of Google RedTeam, and served as a U.S. Navy Officer during Operation Iraqi Freedom.
Geospatial Information Systems (GIS) are pivotal across industries. Yet, many GIS applications remain anchored in outdated, monolithic structures.
Join us for an insightful session with Anthony Molzahn, CEO of Devii, to discover how cutting-edge microservices are transforming the GIS landscape.
Anthony, a pioneer in remote sensing, GIS, and API technologies, will share the value in making spatial data more accessible and commercially viable. Learn how these innovations are driving efficiency and growth in sectors like manufacturing, supply chain, agtech, energy, security, photonics, and IoT.
Anthony Molzahn is the CEO and co-founder of Devii, a company specializing in a middleware capable of automating the generation of GraphQL schemas and APIs for any and all SQL-based relational databases.With 16+ years of experience in B2B SaaS and startup environments, Anthony has... Read More →
Matt McLarty, Boomi, CTO & VP, Boomi Innovation Group
As AI becomes more prevalent, communication between API endpoints is expanding rapidly. The current API economy is just the tip of the iceberg compared to what lies ahead in an AI-driven future. In this landscape, APIs are crucial for enabling AI integration and readiness, fundamentally transforming application development.
Discover techniques for strategic AI implementation, responsible automation, and effective API management to establish an AI-ready enterprise. Whether you’re an API developer, AI practitioner, or business stakeholder, this talk will provide insights for effective AI orchestration and turning AI readiness into a competitive advantage.
Key Takeaways: - Practical methods to enhance AI integration with APIs - Using AI ethically with APIs - Insights on achieving AI readiness and avoiding pitfalls
Matt McLarty is the Chief Technology Officer for Boomi. He helps organizations around the world thrive in the digital age. He is an active member of the worldwide API community, has led global technical teams at Salesforce, IBM and CA Technologies, and started his career in financial... Read More →
Gaganjot Kaur Kang, Sony Interactive Entertainment, Software Engineer
This session is geared towards equipping software engineers, technical managers, and business owners with an in-depth guide to optimizing API performance. Attendees can expect the following key takeaways:
- Explore fundamental principles and top practices to grasp the importance of API performance optimization. - Acquire knowledge of API architecture patterns through real-world examples, aiding in the development of data-intensive applications. - Discover strategies for bolstering the speed, scalability, and reliability of APIs.
In today's micro services world, it is far too common for an API service to explode at an unbounded rate. The journey starts off as a shiny new micro service, which was designed to contain APIs for 1 business entity, becoming so heavily utilized that over time, it evolves and turns into a massive monolith, which contains hundreds of APIs for dozens of business entities. In the early days, new features could be introduced and rolled out within a few hours. Now, a small database schema change takes a few days or weeks to roll out. In this madness, how do you effectively and efficiently decompose and modernize your monolith? This session goes over a real world case study of how a group of 5 engineers decomposed a 160+ API monolith into smaller and focused micro services with 0 outages, 0 downtime, increase in overall service availability from 99.9% to 99.999%, decrease in latencies from 15% to 95% and ability to handle 90x more traffic with a reduced resource footprint (68% reduction in compute and 55% reduction in memory).
Parth is a highly accomplished Staff Software Engineer who is currently working on Developer Productivity at Cruise LLC. With a distinguished career spanning across industry giants such as Oracle and Microsoft, he has consistently designed, developed, and delivered cutting-edge cloud... Read More →
Bianca Tamayo is a Staff Software Engineer at Cruise, based in San Francisco. She has a broad range of experience, including full-stack application development, backend services, release and deployment, and building platforms. Bianca's passion lies in developing systems that simplify... Read More →
With the viral adoption of AI driven by commercially available LLMs newer venues of business have opened up. These new business models are driven by the likes of Co-pilots and virtual agents that bring in tremendous productivity gains across business workflows. Concepts like Generative AI and Conversational AI have already gained mainstream popularity. A new branch of AI that is gaining momentum is that of Agentic AI. This talk is geared towards identifying mechanisms that make inter-agentic communication possible and the ontology of such interactions solving for needed concepts of roles, tasks, memory, tools, context and prompts for a scalable and reliable inter-agentic business workflow.
Shashank is the co-founder and CTO of M9. He has more than a decade of work experience working in technology. More recently he was leading performance and AI initiatives at Akasa where he improved developer productivity by 1000x. Prior to that he was with Amazon where his work on... Read More →
Microservices are currently the architecture du jour for building cloud native applications. This session will describe how microservices, each with their own database, can work together to ensure the data they maintain is consistent with the databases of other microservices. Deciding on a pattern to guarantee data consistency is dependent upon many factors. This session will describe some of those factors and provide practical solutions to ensuring data consistency across a broad range of microservices. At the completion of this session, attendees should understand that it's more important to determine the context and requirements for their application than just going with the current mantra. Hopefully this will lead them to consider simpler design patterns that have been discarded for no other reason than someone decided they're an anti-pattern.
Todd Little is chief architect for transaction processing products at Oracle, including the Oracle Tuxedo product family, Oracle Blockchain Platform, and Oracle Transaction Manager for Microservices (MicroTx). Todd is responsible for defining the technical strategy and direction for... Read More →
Ed Olson-Morgan, Marsh McLennan, Core API & Innovation Lead
Driving value from generative AI isn't just about large language models. Integrating them with the right data, services and supporting capabilities through APIs is just as important.
Learn how Marsh McLennan's Generative AI Services project built an API-based environment to nourish AI experimentation and underpin AI impact through production applications serving their 90,000 employees as well as a world-wide client base.
Ed Olson-Morgan is an experienced technology leader with a diverse background across technical fields as well as business, consulting and strategy. He is currently the Core APIs and Innovation Lead at Marsh McLennan, where he is building a team of software engineers and technologists... Read More →
