World Congress 2025 • Aug 20, 2025 • Session details

Lessons from Our API Past: Evolving to a Resilient API Future

Microservice sprawl often creates a fragile distributed monolith. Learn how isolated contract testing replaces brittle end-to-end tests to guarantee safe, independent API deployments.

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2:20 min

Discovering risk models and implementing contract testing tools

Sarah Hutchins · World Congress 2022

1:18 min

Audience Q&A on enforcing API contracts

Tushar Gupta

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Designing a resilient API gateway architecture

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Designing microservices with the OpenAPI specification workflow

Artem Manchenkov

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Clarifying API technologies and future scope

Simon Auer

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Summarizing key engineering lessons for platform API development

Anto

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