Join us for a look into the next generation of API Ecosystem design and deployment, led by industry experts John and Leo. In this workshop, you'll learn how a No-Code approach can transform the API lifecycle: enabling rapid development, and fostering greater collaboration among stakeholders.
We'll tackle common challenges head-on, including ensuring consistency across environments (Sandbox, Test & Production) and refining partner, developer and end-user experiences.
John Power has over 40 years experience in software development and has focused on the the design and deployment of APIs / API Ecosystems for the past 20 years.
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 →
In the fast-paced world of software development, collaboration is key to building robust and innovative solutions. This session delves into the strategies and features that make Postman, a leading API development platform, a catalyst for effective teamwork and improved developer productivity. We’ll cover features such as collaborative workspaces, role-based access control, version control and API lifecycle management, integrated documentation and testing, and public and private API networks.
Join us to learn how Postman's collaboration-centric approach is transforming the developer experience, making it easier for teams to build, test, and deploy high-quality APIs together.
You'll get a deep dive into: 1. Collaborative Workspaces: Discover how Postman's collaborative workspaces enable teams to work together in real-time, facilitating seamless communication and project management.
2. Role-Based Access Control: Learn about Postman’s role-based access control, which ensures secure and organized collaboration by defining specific roles and permissions within a team.
3. Version Control and API Lifecycle Management: Explore Postman’s version control features that help teams manage changes, track progress, and maintain consistency throughout the API lifecycle.
4. Integrated Documentation and Testing: See how Postman integrates documentation and testing within the development process, enabling teams to create comprehensive API documentation and automated tests collaboratively.
5. Public and Private API Networks: Understand the benefits of Postman’s public and private API networks for sharing and discovering APIs, fostering a community-driven approach to API development.
Alex is a results-oriented senior developer relations leader with 20 years of internet-related business experience. He's passionate about technology, developers as a customer, ecosystems & platforms development, as well as leading & developing high performing teams at world-class... Read More →
In this session we will explore Platform Engineering practise and some common challenges faced by Platform Engineering teams. In particular, this session examines some common challenges around APIs and API lifecycle that these teams deal with, and examples of how organizations overcome them.
Francesco, VP of Product at Gravitee.io has more than 12 years experience in building successful products and leading high-performing teams in B2B SaaS and B2C markets. He spent the best part of his career building software for developers, and now leads the product team and strategy... Read More →
Daniel Myers, Snowflake, Director of Developer Relations
APIs for data - do you start with the data model or the API model? Learn best practices and how to build data-intensive applications on Snowflake and large language models (LLMs). In this session, you’ll learn different API architectural patterns, including Connected Apps and Snowflake Native Apps. Daniel will demonstrate how to develop, deploy, and run applications directly on Snowflake.
With cross-functional experience in software engineering, product management, and business development, Daniel is the Director of Developer Relations at Snowflake. Daniel leads global, cross-functional teams in software development and customer adoption, with a focus on bottom-up... Read More →
Learn how modern authorization models enable developers to easily implement authorization for the most complex use cases. Modern authorization models enable developers to design authorization models in a way that's centralized, flexible, scalable, and easy to use.
In this talk, we’ll cover: Where we’re at with authorization as an industry today. The scalability, performance, and complexity challenges of implementing authorization. An introduction to modern authorization models and key principles to address the fine-grained authorization challenges Details about OpenFGA, the open source version of FGA and Okta’s commercial offering
Mary Greenlee serves as a Field CTO and Principal Solutions Engineer at OKTA, where she leads programs to mitigate the security risks of large-scale integrations of enterprise applications. Her multifaceted expertise in databases, networking protocols, and server systems coupled with... Read More →
As artificial intelligence continues to reshape the tech landscape, the most pressing question emerges: Has AI fundamentally altered the realm of API testing? Join us for a dynamic panel discussion where our experts—Arthur and Renata—will delve into the merits and limitations of AI-driven testing versus traditional, human-led approaches. They will cover the topic of how quality and engineering organizations are fundamentally evolving during this time where AI seems to be a hype that is driving a sea change in our world of API first development.
Moderated by a seasoned industry professional, Joanna Schloss, this session will explore key points of contention, including:
Can AI truly replicate the intuition of experienced testers in identifying edge cases?
How do AI-generated test cases compare to manually crafted ones in terms of coverage and reliability?
What are the practical challenges of integrating AI testing tools into existing development workflows?
We will also examine how the rise of AI testing impacts the roles of QA professionals and developers. Engage in this interesting and timely debate as we consider whether API testing is evolving or facing extinction in the age of AI. Don’t miss the opportunity to weigh in on the future of quality assurance!
Joanna Schloss leads Parasoft’s marketing, business development, branding, strategic positioning, go-to-market strategy, and sales enablement. With 25 years of experience transforming and evolving both global 500 companies and startups, she’s worked on various projects involving... Read More →
Wilhelm Haaker, Parasoft, Director, Solution Engineering, Functional
Continuous testing serves as the cornerstone for modern software development, facilitating the rapid delivery of high-quality software. Yet, as projects grow in complexity and testing scope, achieving the delicate balance between frequent releases and uncompromised quality becomes increasingly challenging. The methodology of short development iterations often clashes with the necessity of rigorous regression testing, threatening to erode the foundation of continuous testing.
In this session, we’ll discuss how to overcome the hurdles that impede achieving continuous testing at scale. Drawing from industry experience and best practices, we’ll tackle:
Too many UI tests. Explore innovative approaches to reduce dependence on UI testing, optimizing test coverage across the SDLC for efficiency and reliability.
Too many tests in general. Reduce the constantly increasing weight of regression tests that compromise QA's ability to keep up with development by adopting strategies that uphold testing effectiveness without sacrificing velocity.
Test environment constraints. Confront the challenges stemming from test environment availability and controllability through the strategic application of service virtualization.
Join us as we unravel the intricacies of continuous testing at scale, equipping your team with the tools and insights necessary to embrace a paradigm shift toward accelerated delivery without compromising on quality.
Wilhelm Haaker, Director of Solution Engineering at Parasoft, manages a global team of solution engineers dedicated to Parasoft’s web and cloud solutions. His team helps organizations modernize their software development and testing processes and optimize test automation for Agile... Read More →
Baruch Sadogursky, Gradle, Principal Developer Productivity Engineering Advocate Laura Kassovic, Gradle, Tech Writer
Swagger and OpenAPI revolutionized the API landscape and created a thriving ecosystem of developer tools, from IDEs to contract testing and no-code solutions. In our projects (WireMock, Jenkins, Testcontainers and WireMock Cloud) we adopted OpenAPI to provide a great developer, and achieved great results. At the same time, the v3 version of specification has too many limitations, especially when it comes to behavior modeling: limited extensions framework, poor response flexibility limiting complex API options, and weak examples and self documentation capabilities. Good news is that OpenAPI v4 (Project Moonwalk) addresses many of those concerns and, hopefully, could address others before the release. Let’s, wearing our end user hats, discuss the v3 experiences and how we could address them in the upcoming major release!
Laura is a seasoned Technical Writer specializing in software and hardware documentation. At Gradle, she focuses on enhancing the Gradle Build Tool User Manual and the Gradle experience. She has authored tutorials, blog posts, Javadocs, user manual entries, and release notes during... Read More →
Principal Developer Productivity Engineering Advocate, Gradle
Baruch Sadogursky (@jbaruch) did Java before it had generics, DevOps before there was Docker, and DevRel before it had a name. He started DevRel at JFrog when it was ten people and took it all the way to a successful $6B IPO by helping engineers solve problems. Now Baruch keeps helping... Read More →
Matthew Bae, Deloitte, Specialist Lead in API & Integration Offering
Modern integration techniques, typically implemented through APIs and Microservices, play a pivotal role in propelling digital transformation initiatives. These deployments often occur in highly distributed environments, where a large number of small APIs and Microservices are simultaneously developed by different teams.
This simultaneous development can present challenges such as coordination among teams and delays due to waiting for other teams' completion. Overcoming these challenges requires distributed development techniques like design-first approaches and test-driven methodologies. In these methods, interface specifications written in a common structured language serve as the "contract" to manage interface agreements between applications. These interface contracts, which are machine-readable, and version controlled, facilitate trust among teams and allow parallel development and testing of applications in an early stage of the application development lifecycle. The contracts also aid in dependency management, planning for integrated testing, and releases of all related APIs and Microservices.
This session discusses a GenAI-assisted solution to standardize the development of API specifications, and automate the publishing of versioned, traceable API documentation in an API catalog portal. This pro
Specialist Lead in API & Integration Offering, Deloitte
Matthew Bae is a systems integration leader and collaborative problem solver who uses his over 20 years of banking and telco industry knowledge, IT management consulting experiences, and digital transformation and integration architecture expertise (MuleSoft) to help enterprises reduce... Read More →
Madhusudhan Reddy, Imperva, Sr. Product Manager for Runtime Application Self Protection (RASP) and API Security
It is becoming more common for practitioners of API Security Testing to leverage runtime data to enhance their capability to discover business logic and API specific vulnerabilities. While runtime data are critical to overcome the limitation of static analysis, the data collection itself can raise real concerns over data privacy protection, especially when it can be seen as a breach of the compartmentalization between runtime and dev environments. In this talk you will learn best practices for the runtime API Security component to generate tests without jeopardizing data.
Sr. Product Manager for Runtime Application Self Protection (RASP) and API Security, Imperva
Madhusudhan Reddy (Madhu) is the Sr. Product Manager for Runtime Application Self Protection (RASP) and API Security at Imperva, a Thales company. Madhu has over 15 years of experience in Cyber Security. Prior to Imperva, Madhu worked at F5 where he managed threat intelligence products... Read More →
Dugald Morrow, Atlassian, Developer Advocacy and Extensibility Standards
API technologists are becoming increasingly aware of the benefits of an API first approach to software development, but there are many challenges related to the establishment of an API First culture throughout an organisation.
In this session, learn about the tactics used by Atlassian’s Extensibility Standards team to uplevel Atlassian’s API culture. The session covers the challenges faced by Atlassian, how API First overcomes these challenges and how API First fits within Atlassian’s API lifecycle management practices.
Developer Advocacy and Extensibility Standards, Atlassian
Dugald Morrow studied electrical engineering at the University of Sydney. His software career started in the development of mission critical applications including a submarine combat system, air traffic control system and traffic and transport management system. He worked in a number... 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.
In the evolving landscape of enterprise technology, the traditional approach of building separate API platforms is no longer sustainable. Instead, integrating API management and capabilities into a comprehensive Internal Developer Platform (IDP) ensures greater agility, efficiency, and coherence in software development. This session explores the pitfalls of isolated API platforms and presents a compelling case for their integration into IDPs. By emphasizing modularity, discovery, and composability, this unified approach can streamline workflows and enhance developer productivity. Drawing from the principles of the Platformless Manifesto, practical strategies, architectural considerations, and real-world examples will illustrate the benefits of this integrated methodology.
Asanka is a technology visionary who connects people and technology through digital transformation programs that create consumer-centric applications. As WSO2's CTO, he is responsible for advancing the company's corporate reference architecture and promoting its thought leadership... Read More →
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 how EDA hubs and NSF engines are 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, 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 →
Sterling presents a comprehensive playbook for navigating the AI API landscape, which has been rapidly evolving since the AI revolution began in late 2022. We'll explore how APIs have become the cornerstone of AI accessibility and implementation across industries.
Attendees will gain actionable insights on how to implement and maximize the potential of AI APIs in their organizations. This playbook approach will equip participants with the knowledge to make informed decisions, overcome common challenges, and stay ahead in the rapidly advancing field of AI.
Whether you're new to AI implementation or looking to optimize your current strategies, this talk will provide valuable, real-world guidance for harnessing the power of AI through APIs.
You'll Learn: 1. How to evaluate AI APIs 2. Open Source or Close Source? 3. How to create a playbook on implementing AI APIs in your products
Sterling Chin is a driving force behind numerous Postman initiatives from inception to launch, including the GA releases of gRPC, GraphQL, Postman Flows, and most recently Postbot, Postman’s AI Assistant. As a long time proponent of AI/ML, he has been instrumental in the adoption... Read More →
Great API documentation is essential when developing a product but it can often be an afterthought during a project. While a technical writer can solve this problem, not every development team or project is assigned one. To create a sublime user experience, you must contemplate how to build a good doc set that’s complete, consistent, and easy to use. In this session, we’ll explore multiple best practices and recommendations that developers can employ to improve their technical documentation.
This session describes:
- Developing personas for your audience - How to create an engaging style and consistent tone for your documentation - How to write documentation for your APIs - Incorporating AI into your documentation process - Drafting some of the “must-have” docs - Creating a feedback loop and maintenance plan for your docs
Ken Cenerelli is a senior technical writer for Google Cloud where he currently creates API documentation that receives millions of page views each year. He’s passionate about technical writing, API documentation, and making content simple for all users. Before his career as a technical... Read More →
Within API-First development, a dichotomy has formed: Code-First or Design-First. Are these approaches destined to be adopted in polarized isolation, or rather, are they equally valid phases of a healthy API development cycle? This presentation will reveal a new way to visualize the cyclical nature of Code-First and Design-First API development, discuss parallels to Test-Driven development, and explore the benefits unlocked from leveraging both methodologies in tandem.
Brett Bush is a Staff Software Engineer at LogicGate with a decade of experience building flexible APIs, services, and databases from SaaS platforms to SDKs with a passion for developer experience, comprehensive documentation, and cross-team collaboration. Brett built out LogicGate's... Read More →
Vasanth Mohan, SambaNova, Director, Technical Product Marketing and Developer Relations
Agentic AI is the next frontier. Whilst current chat-bot + RAG use cases were the first wave, they are ultimately limited in how much they can transform work and deliver on the productivity growth that we have all been promised. Agentic AIs can autonomously pursue complex goals and workflows with limited direct human supervision, making it possible to automate large amounts of knowledge work.
However, whilst the systems of today, namely GPU-based systems, were well suited to chatbots and knowledge retrieval use cases, they are not equipped to handle this new wave of Agentic AI. From ultra-fast token generation, running lots of models of each node and instant model switching, we walk through why this matters, and how fast inference speeds through SambaNova unlock this capability.
Director, Technical Product Marketing and Developer Relations, SambaNova
Vasanth Mohan is a seasoned technology leader, serving as Director of Technical Product Marketing and Developer Relations at SambaNova. With a proven track record of empowering thousands of developers and startups across emerging technologies, including VR/AR, Edge Computing, and... 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 →
Join us for a look into the next generation of API Ecosystem design and deployment, led by industry experts John and Leo. In this workshop, you'll learn how a No-Code approach can transform the API lifecycle: enabling rapid development, and fostering greater collaboration among stakeholders.
We'll tackle common challenges head-on, including ensuring consistency across environments (Sandbox, Test & Production) and refining partner, developer and end-user experiences.
John Power has over 40 years experience in software development and has focused on the the design and deployment of APIs / API Ecosystems for the past 20 years.
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.
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 →
In the fast-paced world of software development, collaboration is key to building robust and innovative solutions. This session delves into the strategies and features that make Postman, a leading API development platform, a catalyst for effective teamwork and improved developer productivity. We’ll cover features such as collaborative workspaces, role-based access control, version control and API lifecycle management, integrated documentation and testing, and public and private API networks.
Join us to learn how Postman's collaboration-centric approach is transforming the developer experience, making it easier for teams to build, test, and deploy high-quality APIs together.
You'll get a deep dive into: 1. Collaborative Workspaces: Discover how Postman's collaborative workspaces enable teams to work together in real-time, facilitating seamless communication and project management.
2. Role-Based Access Control: Learn about Postman’s role-based access control, which ensures secure and organized collaboration by defining specific roles and permissions within a team.
3. Version Control and API Lifecycle Management: Explore Postman’s version control features that help teams manage changes, track progress, and maintain consistency throughout the API lifecycle.
4. Integrated Documentation and Testing: See how Postman integrates documentation and testing within the development process, enabling teams to create comprehensive API documentation and automated tests collaboratively.
5. Public and Private API Networks: Understand the benefits of Postman’s public and private API networks for sharing and discovering APIs, fostering a community-driven approach to API development.
Alex is a results-oriented senior developer relations leader with 20 years of internet-related business experience. He's passionate about technology, developers as a customer, ecosystems & platforms development, as well as leading & developing high performing teams at world-class... Read More →
In this session we will explore Platform Engineering practise and some common challenges faced by Platform Engineering teams. In particular, this session examines some common challenges around APIs and API lifecycle that these teams deal with, and examples of how organizations overcome them.
Francesco, VP of Product at Gravitee.io has more than 12 years experience in building successful products and leading high-performing teams in B2B SaaS and B2C markets. He spent the best part of his career building software for developers, and now leads the product team and strategy... Read More →
Daniel Myers, Snowflake, Director of Developer Relations
APIs for data - do you start with the data model or the API model? Learn best practices and how to build data-intensive applications on Snowflake and large language models (LLMs). In this session, you’ll learn different API architectural patterns, including Connected Apps and Snowflake Native Apps. Daniel will demonstrate how to develop, deploy, and run applications directly on Snowflake.
With cross-functional experience in software engineering, product management, and business development, Daniel is the Director of Developer Relations at Snowflake. Daniel leads global, cross-functional teams in software development and customer adoption, with a focus on bottom-up... Read More →
Aaron Wolbach, Auth0 by Okta, Sr Solutions Engineer
Learn how modern authorization models enable developers to easily implement authorization for the most complex use cases. Modern authorization models enable developers to design authorization models in a way that's centralized, flexible, scalable, and easy to use.
In this talk, we’ll cover: Where we’re at with authorization as an industry today. The scalability, performance, and complexity challenges of implementing authorization. An introduction to modern authorization models and key principles to address the fine-grained authorization challenges Details about OpenFGA, the open source version of FGA and Okta’s commercial offering
Keploy. has become one of the popular tools for software end to end testing. If you can test your application with enough time to market that, this is what you're likely to use.
In this talk, we will classify end to end testing and discuss application areas for Keploy and traditional testing framework, and discuss which tool to choose for each use-case. And why not both? We will discuss using Keploy side by side with existing testcases to get even higher coverage with real-time based edge scenarios.
P.S: We will focus on enterprise grade application with Node, Java, but the same approaches can be used everywhere since Keploy is language agnostic.
I have a passion for learning and sharing my knowledge with others a public as possible.I love open source. I am not a heavy maintainer of any large libraries, but I really like the boyscout rule. I contribute to things as I come across issues that I think other people might struggle... Read More →
As artificial intelligence continues to reshape the tech landscape, the most pressing question emerges: Has AI fundamentally altered the realm of API testing? Join us for a dynamic panel discussion where our experts—Arthur and Renata—will delve into the merits and limitations of AI-driven testing versus traditional, human-led approaches. They will cover the topic of how quality and engineering organizations are fundamentally evolving during this time where AI seems to be a hype that is driving a sea change in our world of API first development.
Moderated by a seasoned industry professional, Joanna Schloss, this session will explore key points of contention, including:
Can AI truly replicate the intuition of experienced testers in identifying edge cases?
How do AI-generated test cases compare to manually crafted ones in terms of coverage and reliability?
What are the practical challenges of integrating AI testing tools into existing development workflows?
We will also examine how the rise of AI testing impacts the roles of QA professionals and developers. Engage in this interesting and timely debate as we consider whether API testing is evolving or facing extinction in the age of AI. Don’t miss the opportunity to weigh in on the future of quality assurance!
Joanna Schloss leads Parasoft’s marketing, business development, branding, strategic positioning, go-to-market strategy, and sales enablement. With 25 years of experience transforming and evolving both global 500 companies and startups, she’s worked on various projects involving... Read More →
Wilhelm Haaker, Parasoft, Director, Solution Engineering, Functional
Continuous testing serves as the cornerstone for modern software development, facilitating the rapid delivery of high-quality software. Yet, as projects grow in complexity and testing scope, achieving the delicate balance between frequent releases and uncompromised quality becomes increasingly challenging. The methodology of short development iterations often clashes with the necessity of rigorous regression testing, threatening to erode the foundation of continuous testing.
In this session, we’ll discuss how to overcome the hurdles that impede achieving continuous testing at scale. Drawing from industry experience and best practices, we’ll tackle:
Too many UI tests. Explore innovative approaches to reduce dependence on UI testing, optimizing test coverage across the SDLC for efficiency and reliability.
Too many tests in general. Reduce the constantly increasing weight of regression tests that compromise QA's ability to keep up with development by adopting strategies that uphold testing effectiveness without sacrificing velocity.
Test environment constraints. Confront the challenges stemming from test environment availability and controllability through the strategic application of service virtualization.
Join us as we unravel the intricacies of continuous testing at scale, equipping your team with the tools and insights necessary to embrace a paradigm shift toward accelerated delivery without compromising on quality.
Wilhelm Haaker, Director of Solution Engineering at Parasoft, manages a global team of solution engineers dedicated to Parasoft’s web and cloud solutions. His team helps organizations modernize their software development and testing processes and optimize test automation for Agile... Read More →
Matthew Bae, Deloitte, Specialist Lead in API & Integration Offering
Modern integration techniques, typically implemented through APIs and Microservices, play a pivotal role in propelling digital transformation initiatives. These deployments often occur in highly distributed environments, where a large number of small APIs and Microservices are simultaneously developed by different teams.
This simultaneous development can present challenges such as coordination among teams and delays due to waiting for other teams' completion. Overcoming these challenges requires distributed development techniques like design-first approaches and test-driven methodologies. In these methods, interface specifications written in a common structured language serve as the "contract" to manage interface agreements between applications. These interface contracts, which are machine-readable, and version controlled, facilitate trust among teams and allow parallel development and testing of applications in an early stage of the application development lifecycle. The contracts also aid in dependency management, planning for integrated testing, and releases of all related APIs and Microservices.
This session discusses a GenAI-assisted solution to standardize the development of API specifications, and automate the publishing of versioned, traceable API documentation in an API catalog portal. This pro
Specialist Lead in API & Integration Offering, Deloitte
Matthew Bae is a systems integration leader and collaborative problem solver who uses his over 20 years of banking and telco industry knowledge, IT management consulting experiences, and digital transformation and integration architecture expertise (MuleSoft) to help enterprises reduce... Read More →
Madhusudhan Reddy, Imperva, Sr. Product Manager for Runtime Application Self Protection (RASP) and API Security
It is becoming more common for practitioners of API Security Testing to leverage runtime data to enhance their capability to discover business logic and API specific vulnerabilities. While runtime data are critical to overcome the limitation of static analysis, the data collection itself can raise real concerns over data privacy protection, especially when it can be seen as a breach of the compartmentalization between runtime and dev environments. In this talk you will learn best practices for the runtime API Security component to generate tests without jeopardizing data.
Sr. Product Manager for Runtime Application Self Protection (RASP) and API Security, Imperva
Madhusudhan Reddy (Madhu) is the Sr. Product Manager for Runtime Application Self Protection (RASP) and API Security at Imperva, a Thales company. Madhu has over 15 years of experience in Cyber Security. Prior to Imperva, Madhu worked at F5 where he managed threat intelligence products... Read More →
Dugald Morrow, Atlassian, Developer Advocacy and Extensibility Standards
API technologists are becoming increasingly aware of the benefits of an API first approach to software development, but there are many challenges related to the establishment of an API First culture throughout an organisation.
In this session, learn about the tactics used by Atlassian’s Extensibility Standards team to uplevel Atlassian’s API culture. The session covers the challenges faced by Atlassian, how API First overcomes these challenges and how API First fits within Atlassian’s API lifecycle management practices.
Developer Advocacy and Extensibility Standards, Atlassian
Dugald Morrow studied electrical engineering at the University of Sydney. His software career started in the development of mission critical applications including a submarine combat system, air traffic control system and traffic and transport management system. He worked in a number... Read More →
Swagger and OpenAPI revolutionized the API landscape and created a thriving ecosystem of developer tools, from IDEs to contract testing and no-code solutions. In our projects (WireMock, Jenkins, Testcontainers and WireMock Cloud) we adopted OpenAPI to provide a great developer, and achieved great results. At the same time, the v3 version of specification has too many limitations, especially when it comes to behavior modeling: limited extensions framework, poor response flexibility limiting complex API options, and weak examples and self documentation capabilities. Good news is that OpenAPI v4 (Project Moonwalk) addresses many of those concerns and, hopefully, could address others before the release. Let’s, wearing our end user hats, discuss the v3 experiences and how we could address them in the upcoming major release!
Oleg is a developer tools hacker, community builder and DevRel consultant. He's passionate open source software, open ecosystems and open hardware advocate. Oleg is a core maintainer and ex board member in the Jenkins project. He's a CNCF ambassador, Testcontainers Champion, GSoC... Read More →
In the evolving landscape of enterprise technology, the traditional approach of building separate API platforms is no longer sustainable. Instead, integrating API management and capabilities into a comprehensive Internal Developer Platform (IDP) ensures greater agility, efficiency, and coherence in software development. This session explores the pitfalls of isolated API platforms and presents a compelling case for their integration into IDPs. By emphasizing modularity, discovery, and composability, this unified approach can streamline workflows and enhance developer productivity. Drawing from the principles of the Platformless Manifesto, practical strategies, architectural considerations, and real-world examples will illustrate the benefits of this integrated methodology.
Asanka is a technology visionary who connects people and technology through digital transformation programs that create consumer-centric applications. As WSO2's CTO, he is responsible for advancing the company's corporate reference architecture and promoting its thought leadership... Read More →
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 how EDA hubs and NSF engines are 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, 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 →
Sterling presents a comprehensive playbook for navigating the AI API landscape, which has been rapidly evolving since the AI revolution began in late 2022. We'll explore how APIs have become the cornerstone of AI accessibility and implementation across industries.
Attendees will gain actionable insights on how to implement and maximize the potential of AI APIs in their organizations. This playbook approach will equip participants with the knowledge to make informed decisions, overcome common challenges, and stay ahead in the rapidly advancing field of AI.
Whether you're new to AI implementation or looking to optimize your current strategies, this talk will provide valuable, real-world guidance for harnessing the power of AI through APIs.
You'll Learn: 1. How to evaluate AI APIs 2. Open Source or Close Source? 3. How to create a playbook on implementing AI APIs in your products
Sterling Chin is a driving force behind numerous Postman initiatives from inception to launch, including the GA releases of gRPC, GraphQL, Postman Flows, and most recently Postbot, Postman’s AI Assistant. As a long time proponent of AI/ML, he has been instrumental in the adoption... Read More →
Within API-First development, a dichotomy has formed: Code-First or Design-First. Are these approaches destined to be adopted in polarized isolation, or rather, are they equally valid phases of a healthy API development cycle? This presentation will reveal a new way to visualize the cyclical nature of Code-First and Design-First API development, discuss parallels to Test-Driven development, and explore the benefits unlocked from leveraging both methodologies in tandem.
Brett Bush is a Staff Software Engineer at LogicGate with a decade of experience building flexible APIs, services, and databases from SaaS platforms to SDKs with a passion for developer experience, comprehensive documentation, and cross-team collaboration. Brett built out LogicGate's... Read More →
