This global event for API practitioners gets bigger.
This year the event was held in the newly renovated CNIT Forest - a central and easy to join location in the Paris La Defense business area.
Many of us were amazed by the number of talks and exhibitors showing their latest advances in API Design, API Management, and Event Driven Management gateways and the many discussions around OpenAPI, JSON-Schema, and GraphQL. As a sponsor of API Days Paris, Cisco DevNet - Cisco's developer program - offered a booth where we engage 100+ conversations with attendees and discussed how to build and publish robust APIs, sharing our experience driving API Quality and Security initiatives.
DevNet offered 2 talks explaining the importance of API Contracts, how we are evaluating and scoring our APIs internally, and also the challenges that come with the lifecycle and management of OpenAPI documents.
We were able to show why and how a successful API-first strategy not only encourages consistent practices when designing, versioning, and documenting APIs, but also lets you look into testing and observing live traffic to ensure APIs behave as per their contract.
In this regard, we offered demonstrations of the latest version of Panoptica - Cisco Cloud Application Security solution - with a particular focus on API Security.
If you are interested in this topic, we encourage you to schedule a live demo of Panoptica.
Panoptica Learning Lab: This hands-on tutorial will take you all the way from zero to detecting API drifts from live traffic observations.
Why API Contracts matter: In this talk we define what is an API Contract and the maturity model used at Cisco to evaluate the quality of API Contracts.
We will then dive into strategies and OpenAPI tools to automatically score APIs.
Managing OpenAPI Documents at scale: In this talk, we will discuss strategies for managing OpenAPI documents at scale, leveraging lessons learned from Cisco's extensive use of OpenAPI specifications across its REST API portfolio.
We will delve into standardization, version control, automation, and modularization.
Join this session to gain insights into challenges faced in handling very large documents, ensuring compliance, and maintaining consistency.
We are looking forward to meeting again next year for API Days Paris 2024, Dec 3-5th 2024.
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