DeveloperWeek 2025

DeveloperWeek 2025

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9:30am PST

OpenAPI Summit: The Third-Wave of API Management

Wednesday February 12, 2025 9:30am - 9:55am PST

Adrian Machado, Zuplo, Staff Engineer

The third-wave of API management is here. There are several trends that engineers and technical leaders need to know so they can choose the right tools and platforms for building their APIs. Trends include
1. Modernization around API gateways - The move towards GitOps over server configuration, and Edge over regional deployments
2. Centralization around OpenAPI and new tooling that's emerged
3. A strong focus on API DevX - what API-as-a-product really looks like in practice and the companies pushing the envelope. SDK generation, docs platforms, and more take center stage.

The talk will cover technology and tools engineering leaders should look to adopt and the benefits/drawbacks

Speakers

Adrian Machado

Staff Engineer, Zuplo

I am a Staff Software engineer working at Zuplo. I specialize in our open source technology and adopting emerging technologies (ex. AI) at the company. This includes our work on RateMyOpenAPI, Zudoku, Mockbin, and various other tools. I've written several blogs for Zuplo, and spoken... Read More →

Wednesday February 12, 2025 9:30am - 9:55am PST
Dev Exec World

Tracks & Topics APIs & Microservices
Session Type OPEN Session
Conferences OpenAPI Summit, OPEN Session
In-Person/Virtual In Person

10:00am PST

OpenAPI Summit: OpenAPI Summit Introduction: Why and How to Use OpenAPI

Wednesday February 12, 2025 10:00am - 10:25am PST

Erik Wilde, OpenAPI, Ambassador

Speakers

Erik Wilde

Ambassador, OpenAPI

Erik Wilde is an experienced and internationally known professional in the space of digital transformation and API strategy and management. Erik has degrees in computer science from TU Berlin and ETH Zurich. He is the author of many articles and papers, various books, multiple standards... Read More →

Wednesday February 12, 2025 10:00am - 10:25am PST
Dev Exec World

Tracks & Topics APIs & Microservices
Session Type OPEN Session
Conferences OPEN Session, OpenAPI Summit, Dev Exec World
In-Person/Virtual In Person

10:30am PST

OpenAPI Summit: Describing API Workflows with Arazzo

Wednesday February 12, 2025 10:30am - 10:55am PST

Frank Kilcommins, SmartBear, Principal API Technical Evangelist

Take a hands-on approach to mastering Arazzo, the API workflow specification from the OpenAPI Initiative, designed to streamline how to describe, validate, and share multi-step API interactions. This session cuts through the noise, giving you the tools and techniques needed to create high-quality workflow documents for real-world applications. We start with a breakdown of the Arazzo Specification structure and how it simplifies API workflows into reusable, programmatically readable formats. See Arazzo Specification GPT in action, accelerating the creation of Arazzo Documents and workflows with AI-driven precision. Dive into VSCode for hands-on editing, and how to validate and lint Arazzo Documents using Spectral. Learn how to create custom Spectral rules to enforce your team’s style guide, ensuring your documents are consistent and maintainable. You get tools, tips, and confidence to start your Arazzo journey, enabling you to weave together the use cases that enhance both human understanding and machine usability of your APIs.

Speakers

Frank Kilcommins

Principal API Technical Evangelist, SmartBear

Frank has over 15 years’ experience in the technology industry, with his roles spanning from software engineering to enterprise architecture. His mission is to inspire, engage with and support the API community and SmartBear customers across the end-to-end API Development Lifecycle... Read More →

Wednesday February 12, 2025 10:30am - 10:55am PST
Dev Exec World

Tracks & Topics APIs & Microservices
Session Type OPEN Session
Conferences OPEN Session, OpenAPI Summit, Dev Exec World
In-Person/Virtual In Person

11:00am PST

OpenAPI Summit: Coming Soon!

Wednesday February 12, 2025 11:00am - 11:25am PST

Henry Andrews, OpenAPI, OpenAPI Standards & Software Contractor

Speakers

Henry Andrews

OpenAPI Standards & Software Contractor, OpenAPI

Wednesday February 12, 2025 11:00am - 11:25am PST
Dev Exec World

Tracks & Topics APIs & Microservices
Session Type OPEN Session
Conferences OPEN Session, OpenAPI Summit, Dev Exec World
In-Person/Virtual In Person

11:30am PST

OpenAPI Summit: OpenAPI Overlays: Strategies for API Description Management

Wednesday February 12, 2025 11:30am - 11:55am PST

Kevin Swiber, API strategy lead and technical evangelist

Are you puzzled by the number of ways OpenAPI descriptions might be used? How do you handle differences in visibility, custom extensions, or even multilingual documentation? OpenAPI Overlays offer a nuanced approach to modifying an API description without altering the original. This session will explore how you can use Overlays to address common challenges with OpenAPI Specification.
We'll cover:
- Core concepts of the OpenAPI Overlay Specification
- Practical use cases that require transforming API descriptions
- Techniques for managing API metadata and visibility
By understanding Overlays, you'll gain a flexible tool for adapting API specifications to different environments and requirements.

Speakers

Kevin Swiber

Developer Experience Advisor, Stripe

Kevin Swiber is a senior API strategy lead and technical evangelist with over 10 years of experience in API technology startups. They have a history of working in software engineering, infrastructure operations, and enterprise architecture. In addition to their work at API companies... Read More →

Wednesday February 12, 2025 11:30am - 11:55am PST
Dev Exec World

Tracks & Topics APIs & Microservices
Session Type OPEN Session
Conferences OPEN Session, OpenAPI Summit, Dev Exec World
In-Person/Virtual In Person

1:00pm PST

OpenAPI Summit: Your Cheat Code for API Authorization

Wednesday February 12, 2025 1:00pm - 1:25pm PST

Omri Gazitt, Aserto, Co-founder & CEO

Congrats, your org is all-in on microservices! But now you have hundreds (or thousands!) of APIs. Some power your customer-facing apps. Others are platform services that your front-end services consume. Still others are back-end services used by internal tools.

And ALL of them need to be authorized.

Not to mention, you need to be able to answer questions like “which users are authorized to invoke this endpoint?” and “which endpoints can this user invoke?”

Having each API “do its own thing” makes it all but impossible to wrangle this complexity. You need a cross-cutting solution to apply authorization rules consistently - either in the API code or at the API Gateway.

Enter Aserto: an open source cloud-native authorization service that does this, and more.

This talk provides hands-on learning for how to go from an OpenAPI spec to a fine-grained authorization model, ready to authorize your users, in just a few minutes.

Speakers

Omri Gazitt

Co-founder & CEO, Aserto.com

Omri is the co-founder/CEO of Aserto.com, an authorization startup, and his 3rd entrepreneurial venture. He spent the majority of his 30-year career working on developer & infrastructure tech, most recently as the CPO of Puppet. Previously he was the VP & GM of HP's Cloud Native Platform... Read More →

Wednesday February 12, 2025 1:00pm - 1:25pm PST
Dev Exec World

Tracks & Topics APIs & Microservices, DevOps
Session Type OPEN Session
Conferences OPEN Session, OpenAPI Summit, Dev Exec World, OpsWorld
In-Person/Virtual In Person

1:30pm PST

OpenAPI Summit: No AI without APIs

Wednesday February 12, 2025 1:30pm - 1:55pm PST

Jeremy Snyder, Firetail, CEO

Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) are two of the most important developments in tech of the last 10 years. While AI has grabbed the majority of headlines lately, APIs are the unsung heroes, the “connective tissue” that ensures seamless integration across our digital lives. But how will the more recent emergence of AI affect API security, and how do APIs affect the security of AI?
In this talk, we’ll explore these two hot topics that make our online worlds work. AI can be helpful to API security by allowing security teams to automate certain processes or make testing more efficient, but it can also be used to help malicious actors automate their attacks.

Speakers

Jeremy Snyder

CEO, FireTail

Jeremy is the founder and CEO of FireTail.io, an end-to-end API security startup. Prior to FireTail, Jeremy worked in M&A at Rapid7, a global cyber leader, where he worked on the acquisitions of 3 companies during the pandemic. Jeremy previously led sales at DivvyCloud, one of the... Read More →

Wednesday February 12, 2025 1:30pm - 1:55pm PST
Dev Exec World

Tracks & Topics APIs & Microservices, DevOps
Session Type OPEN Session
Conferences OPEN Session, OpenAPI Summit, AI DevWorld, OpsWorld
In-Person/Virtual In Person

2:00pm PST

OpenAPI Summit: APIOps: Interface Development at Scale

Wednesday February 12, 2025 2:00pm - 2:25pm PST

Erik Hansen, Dell Technologies, API Architect, Developer Platform Services

Sure, your product may deliver a REST API to customers, but what about all those interfaces that exist within your company - between microservices, for internal tooling, and from imported packages? API Operations (APIOps) enables a consistent process, for developing and sharing any type of software interface, within your company and for your customers – whether you have 2 or 200 teams.
In this talk, learn how Dell is implementing APIOps to:
- Increase development velocity - for the team producing a shared interface, and their consumers.
- Reduce complexity - through common developer tooling and processes.
- Promote Consistency - by automating validation and governance.
- Expand Visibility - across all types of interfaces: REST, gRPC, event-based, and others.

Speakers

Erik Hansen

API Architect, Developer Platform Services, Dell Technologies

Erik is a Distinguished Member Technical Staff and API Architect at Dell Technologies. He is an advocate for User Centered Design and Developer Experience, helping Dell modernize its software development processes and engagement with external developers.

Wednesday February 12, 2025 2:00pm - 2:25pm PST
Dev Exec World

Tracks & Topics APIs & Microservices, DevOps
Session Type OPEN Session
Conferences OPEN Session, OpenAPI Summit, OpsWorld
In-Person/Virtual In Person

2:30pm PST

OpenAPI Summit: API Governance in the age of AI

Wednesday February 12, 2025 2:30pm - 2:55pm PST

Olga Podolyako, Microsoft, Principal API Architect

API governance faces a big challenge today to balance the need for speed and innovation in API products with the assurance of their quality and security. Recently we learned that AI technologies such as AI agents can increase the productivity of knowledge workers, which include software engineers and architects, by up to 29% in industries that use them such as health care, law and finance. The purpose of today’s talk is to explore how AI technology can help with API governance.

Speakers

Olga Podolyako

Principal API Architect, Microsoft

Olga is a Principal API Architect at Microsoft. After a long career in development Olga found her passion in the architecture professions working in roles such as business, integration, and enterprise architect. Currently Olga focuses on the API architecture and governance for Microsoft... Read More →

Wednesday February 12, 2025 2:30pm - 2:55pm PST
Dev Exec World

Tracks & Topics APIs & Microservices
Session Type OPEN Session
Conferences OPEN Session, OpenAPI Summit, AI DevWorld
In-Person/Virtual In Person

3:00pm PST

OpenAPI Summit: API Resiliency Testing

Wednesday February 12, 2025 3:00pm - 3:25pm PST

Hari Krishnan, Specmatic, Polyglot Full Stack Developer

Are your APIs leaving you worried about data loss, data corruption, security vulnerabilities, or poor user experiences? If so, this talk is exactly what you need to address these issues. Discover how you can leverage your API specifications—like OpenAPI, AsyncAPI, and GraphQL SDLs—to test and enhance the resiliency of your APIs with a completely #NOCODE approach.

In this talk, you’ll gain insights into the importance of API resilience and how to build APIs that can gracefully handle flaky dependencies in real-world scenarios. We’ll explore the role of contract testing in ensuring resilience and demonstrate how to transform API specifications into executable contracts that can be continuously validated. You’ll see how to set up resilience tests, including those for latency, errors, and unexpected disconnections. The session features live demos on configuring tools to simulate these conditions, interpret the results, and iteratively enhance your API designs.

Speakers

Hari Krishnan

Polyglot Full Stack Developer, Specmatic

Co-creator of Specmatic and Perfiz. I also advise organisations both large and small on their transformation journey. Apart from bringing ideas to life as working software products, I coach developers, project managers, product owners and engineering leaders.

Wednesday February 12, 2025 3:00pm - 3:25pm PST
Dev Exec World

Tracks & Topics APIs & Microservices
Session Type OPEN Session
Conferences OPEN Session, OpenAPI Summit, Dev Exec World
In-Person/Virtual In Person