API World + CloudX + DataWeek 2025: Full Schedule

1:00pm PDT

PRO WORKSHOP (API): Revolutionizing API Testing and Mocking with TestContainers Modules

Wednesday September 3, 2025 1:00pm - 1:50pm PDT

Hugo Guerrero, Kong, Developer Advocate

As they say, "testing is the art of doubt!" However, in the age of microservices and APIs, being well-prepared to banish uncertainty is critical. Even before entering into the testing world, configuring the full testing environment might be intimidating.

Testcontainers have established themselves as a go-to solution for database, middleware, and cloud services integration testing, but what about your regular business services and APIs? Enter Microcks, an open-source cloud-native tool (CNCF Sandbox project), ready to work with Testcontainers, and providing a solution for mocking and testing APIs without extensive coding.

This collaboration simplifies the process of configuring complex settings, allowing for the adoption of a strong Shift-Left approach to integration testing. The beauty of it is that this methodology is universally applicable, catering to a wide range of APIs, whether REST, gRPC, GraphQL, or Async, regardless of your technological stack, be it Java, Go, Node, or others.

Speakers

Hugo Guerrero

Developer Advocate, Kong

Hugo Guerrero works as a developer advocate. He has spent more than two decades working in software development. During that time, he has held various roles, including developer, consultant, architect, and software development factory manager. He is a passionate advocate for building... Read More →

Wednesday September 3, 2025 1:00pm - 1:50pm PDT
API World -- Workshop Stage A (PRO)

API World

Additional Topics Microservices, REST, GraphQL, gRPC/Protobuf
Talk Type PRO Workshop Day (Wed)
Tracks API World, API Design and Development (API World), Testing / Deploying & Monitoring APIs and Services (API World)
In-Person/Virtual In Person

1:00pm PDT

PRO Session (CloudX): Leveraging Microservices Design for Scalable Architecture

Thursday September 4, 2025 1:00pm - 1:25pm PDT

CloudX -- Main Stage

Vinod Krishnan, Workday, Staff Engineer

In today’s rapidly evolving tech landscape, building scalable, resilient, and maintainable systems is crucial for meeting the demands of growing user bases and complex applications. Microservices architecture, which breaks down large applications into smaller, independent services, has become a popular approach to achieve these goals. However, designing and implementing micro services requires a solid understanding of proven design patterns that can enhance scalability, improve system resilience, and streamline maintenance.
We will explore key design patterns and best practices that can help organizations build robust, efficient, and scalable microservices-based architectures.
Attendees will gain by adopting these strategies, businesses can ensure their systems are not only flexible and adaptable but also prepared to handle increasing traffic and complexity as they grow.

Speakers

Vinod Krishnan

Staff Engineer, Workday

Seasoned Software Engineer with 20 years of experience in architecting and leading software development projects using Java and Python. Proven expertise in software engineering, with a strong track record of driving advancements in compute, memory, and storage efficiency at Workday... Read More →

Thursday September 4, 2025 1:00pm - 1:25pm PDT
CloudX -- Main Stage

CloudX

Additional Topics Microservices
Talk Type PRO Session
Tracks CloudX
In-Person/Virtual In Person

3:30pm PDT

OPEN Session (DataWeek): Balancing Velocity with Academic Rigor When Building with LLMs

Thursday September 4, 2025 3:30pm - 3:55pm PDT

DataWeek -- Main Stage

Lauren Peate, Multitudes, CEO & founder

We’re all building AI features now. But building with LLMs brings its own challenges – namely: How can we use cutting-edge practices, weave in AI ethics, and consider the cost of different models without blowing past delivery dates. Not to mention making sure that the features we build will be stable, reliable and maintainable in the future.

We recently built our first LLM feature, to show the quality of feedback given in code reviews. In 1 month, we did a literature review, consultation with academic experts, data labelling, model experimentation, a cost assessment, and finally, all the ML engineering to launch it into production. The outcome: <1% extreme misclassification and zero hallucinations. In this talk, we’ll share our approach to building LLM features – how we partnered with academia (without being delayed by their timelines), what tooling we used, and how we made the cost and money tradeoffs to keep business stakeholders happy. I’ll also speak to how we built this into our microservices architecture, including how we used tools to generate structured outputs from LLMs on top of AWS’s Bedrock API to have parseable responses from a range of models.

You'll walk away with practical strategies for leading your own teams through AI implementations, identifying ethical issues early, addressing them efficiently, and still delivering on time and on budget.

Speakers

Lauren Peate

CEO & founder, Multitudes

Lauren Peate is the CEO and founder of Multitudes, which helps engineering teams improve delivery sustainably. She’s focused her career on using data to support people, including as the founder of Ally Skills NZ, a consultancy helping global tech companies improve team performance... Read More →

Thursday September 4, 2025 3:30pm - 3:55pm PDT
DataWeek -- Main Stage

DataWeek

Additional Topics Microservices, RAG & LLMs, Privacy and Ethics
Talk Type OPEN Session
Tracks DataWeek, AI Models and Management (DataWeek), Data Science and Machine Learning (DataWeek)
In-Person/Virtual In Person

11:00am PDT

OPEN Session (CloudX): Conquering Data Consistency Challenges in Cloud-Native Applications

Friday September 5, 2025 11:00am - 11:25am PDT

CloudX -- Main Stage

Brijesh Deo, Oracle, Software Development
Todd Little, Oracle, Chief Architect

Data consistency is critical in the era of cloud-native applications built on microservices architecture due to distributed services and data stores. Inconsistent data can lead to incorrect decision-making, financial losses, downtime, and loss of reputation. Transactions are the proven method to ensure data consistency and can be effectively implemented with cloud-native applications. In this session, you will learn how to overcome the data consistency challenges by employing various transaction patterns. We will demonstrate how a Spring Boot application can, with minimal code changes, use these transaction patterns to ensure data consistency while maintaining scalability & reliability. We will also discuss how similar applications can be developed with other frameworks, such as Express.js, Micronaut, and Helidon, etc.

Speakers

Todd Little

Chief Architect, Oracle

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 →

Brijesh Deo

Director, Software Development, Oracle

Brijesh Deo is the Director of MicroTx product development 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 of more than two decades... Read More →

Friday September 5, 2025 11:00am - 11:25am PDT
CloudX -- Main Stage

CloudX

Additional Topics Microservices
Talk Type OPEN Session
Tracks CloudX, OPEN Session, Cloud Native Development (CloudX)
In-Person/Virtual In Person

1:30pm PDT

PRO Session (API): Scalable Region Failover for Microservices: Platform-Level Resilience at Intuit

Friday September 5, 2025 1:30pm - 1:55pm PDT

API World -- Workshop Stage A (PRO)

Chaitanya Bhatt, Intuit, Principal Engineer
Akshay Pratinav, Intuit, Staff Software Engineer

In today’s distributed architecture, where APIs are the backbone of product experiences, regional outages can break critical customer flows and severely impact business continuity. At Intuit, we’ve built a Kubernetes-native platform that delivers seamless, scalable region failover for hundreds of microservices—enabling consistent API resiliency across the board.

This talk explores how our platform empowers services to declaratively onboard and define key components for failover—compute, databases, and routing. During a failover, the platform automatically pre-scales infrastructure in the secondary region based on live traffic data, promotes standby databases (Amazon Aurora, Redis, and others), and orchestrates traffic redirection via AWS Route 53 or Istio DNS controls. This eliminates manual guesswork, reduces recovery time, and helps ensure that API endpoints remain responsive and stable—even in disaster scenarios.

We’ll also compare the risks of non-standard, ad hoc failover strategies—which often result in brittle systems, untested assumptions, and high operational overhead—with the advantages of a standardized, platform-level approach. Our framework simplifies validation, reduces testing complexity, and enables teams to run game days and chaos experiments with greater confidence and less stress.

Attendees will walk away with practical techniques and patterns for building resilient APIs in a microservices-first world, and learn how investing in a failover platform creates a stronger foundation for disaster preparedness, operational excellence, and a better end-user experience.

Speakers

Chaitanya Bhatt

Principal Engineer, Intuit

Chaitanya Bhatt, an engineering leader with 18 years of experience, specializes in Kubernetes and large-scale applications. As a Principal Engineer at Intuit, he focuses on infrastructure reliability and performance. Chaitanya has made significant contributions, including designing... Read More →

Akshay Pratinav

Staff Software Engineer, Intuit

Staff Software Engineer with extensive experience building distributed systems at scale. Passionate about system design, developer productivity, and leading high-impact engineering initiatives. Outside of work, I enjoy travelling and watching movies

Friday September 5, 2025 1:30pm - 1:55pm PDT
API World -- Workshop Stage A (PRO)

API World