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

11:00am PDT

PRO Session (API): Scaling Systems with Async APIs: The 6+1 Pillars of Resilient Growth

Thursday September 4, 2025 11:00am - 11:25am PDT

API World -- Workshop Stage A (PRO)

Jatin Taneja, Salesforce, Senior Member of Technical Staff

Scaling modern systems goes beyond simply adding servers — it requires rethinking how services communicate. In this session, we’ll explore how Async APIs enable high-throughput, decoupled, and resilient systems through a practical framework: the 6+1 pillars of scalability.

In this condensed talk, we’ll dive into key pillars like loose coupling, message buffering, and partitioned parallelism, showing how they help systems handle traffic spikes, isolate failures, and grow independently. We'll also touch on how the AsyncAPI specification can bring structure and clarity to event-driven architectures.

This talk is ideal for developers, architects, and PMs looking for actionable insights into event-based design. You’ll walk away with a mental model for scaling systems the async way — and where to start.

Key Takeaways:
1. Understand the core pillars that make Async APIs scalable and resilient
2. Learn how to decouple systems using event-driven design
3. See real-world examples of patterns like queue buffering, partitioning, and retries

Speakers

Jatin Taneja

Senior Member of Technical Staff, Salesforce

As a software engineer with over 10 years of experience, I specialize in building scalable, resilient APIs for data intensive applications. I have been working with Salesforce for over 5 years as part of the Enterprise API team. My experience spans various areas of enterprise API... Read More →

Thursday September 4, 2025 11:00am - 11:25am PDT
API World -- Workshop Stage A (PRO)

API World

Talk Type PRO Session
Tracks API World, API Design and Development (API World), Testing / Deploying & Monitoring APIs and Services (API World)
In-Person/Virtual In Person

11:30am PDT

OpenAPI Summit: The Third-Wave of API Management

Thursday September 4, 2025 11:30am - 11:55am PDT

API World -- Workshop Stage B (PRO)

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 →

Thursday September 4, 2025 11:30am - 11:55am PDT
API World -- Workshop Stage B (PRO)

API World

Additional Topics API Management
Talk Type PRO Session
Tracks API World, API Design and Development (API World), Testing / Deploying & Monitoring APIs and Services (API World), OpenAPI Summit
In-Person/Virtual In Person

1:30pm PDT

PRO Session (API): "Network Observability" Overlooked, Underappreciated, More Important than Ever

Thursday September 4, 2025 1:30pm - 1:55pm PDT

API World -- Workshop Stage A (PRO)

Leon Adato, Catchpoint, Developer Relations Advocate

Remember the network? Long before "infrastructure as code", container orchestration, cluster management, or death by 1,000 clicks in some labyrinthine cloud configuration console, the network was an essential layer (or 3) of IT operations.

This may cause some to call for their fainting couch, but I never the less must inform you that the network never went away, became irrelevant, or was simplified to the point where it didn't matter.

The network - good old route and switch, packets and bits (and more importantly flow) networking - is alive and kicking and more important than ever to those of us who care about the performance and availability of our applications.

More to the point, not only is the network the metaphorical plumbing through which all your precious non-metaphorical observability and monitoring data flows; it holds secrets you'll never find in the traces, events, metrics, and logs of typical application observability solutions.

In this talk I'll reveal the observability secrets hiding in plain sight within your network; suggest ways to access that information; and highlight the insights and value you're missing if that data remains invisible, unused, or ignored.

Speakers

Leon Adato

Developer Relations Advocate, Catchpoint

Leon Adato is a Developer Relations Advocate and has held multiple industry certifications over his 33 years in IT including Cisco, Microsoft, A+, and more. His experience spans financial, healthcare, food and beverage, and other industries.Leon has been speaking, blogging, and creating... Read More →

Thursday September 4, 2025 1:30pm - 1:55pm PDT
API World -- Workshop Stage A (PRO)

API World

Additional Topics IT Operations, Infrastructure as Code
Talk Type PRO Session
Tracks API World, Testing / Deploying & Monitoring APIs and Services (API World), API Design and Development (API World)
In-Person/Virtual In Person

2:30pm PDT

PRO Session (API): Supporting AI-First MCP in an API-First World.

Thursday September 4, 2025 2:30pm - 2:55pm PDT

API World -- Workshop Stage A (PRO)

Amey Desai, Nexla, Head of Artificial Intelligence

At Nexla, we recently implemented native support for Model Context Protocol (MCP) as part of our agentic AI framework. This included exposing Data Products as an MCP Server, orchestration across MCP servers and LLMs, and mixing MCP with non-MCP (re)sources and tools. While Nexla is used to build agentic systems, it’s been used a lot longer as an iPaaS to create, integrate, and proxy APIs – and for data integration.

Join us as we walk through our lessons learned and biggest challenges in using AI-First MCP, and mixing it with a non-MCP, API-First world. Topics include:
Current strengths and weaknesses of MCP vs other standards
Nexla’s MCP server architecture, and how it supports different APIs and other sources
AI-driven orchestration of MCP and non-MCP sources
How to manage security with MCP, one of the biggest challenges with MCP today

We'll share practical examples of this architecture in action, covering implementation patterns, agent coordination strategies, and a leave behind or follow along developer kit for the developers in the audience.

Speakers

Amey Desai

Head of Artificial Intelligence, Nexla

Amey Desai is an experienced engineering leader and AI expert specializing in data platforms, generative AI, and enterprise-grade integration solutions. He is currently the Head of AI at Nexla, where he spearheads the development of AI-driven innovations in data management, deep-research... Read More →

Thursday September 4, 2025 2:30pm - 2:55pm PDT
API World -- Workshop Stage A (PRO)

API World

Talk Type PRO Session
Tracks API World, APIs and AI (API World), Testing / Deploying & Monitoring APIs and Services (API World)
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

Additional Topics Microservices
Talk Type PRO Session
Tracks Testing / Deploying & Monitoring APIs and Services (API World), API World
In-Person/Virtual In Person

10:00am PDT

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

Wednesday September 10, 2025 10:00am - 10:50am PDT

VIRTUAL API World -- Workshop Stage A (PRO)

Speakers