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VIScon Workshop: REST API - from design to implementation

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Event start time 15.10.2022 10:15

Event end time 15.10.2022 12:15

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Description

Nowadays it’s hard to imagine a platform without REST API. Some platforms focus just on providing REST API without UI to support business cases. It is more and more important that the API we create allows third-party engineers easy integration with our services.

In this workshop, we’re going to explore the lifecycle of a good API. We will start with an exploration of tools helping with the design of APIs such as OpenAPI. How to include best practices for API during the design phase? We will get answers to the questions: how to make our API extensible in the future, how to make it secure and how we should handle breaking changes.

Additionally, we’re going to look at how to make sure that the API we developed is accurate with what we designed. How do we prevent implementation diverging from design in modern cloud deployment. We will explore multiple ways of preventing it like: gateway validation, code generators and contract testing.

If you want to build APIs which will be used by multiple developers, this is a perfect workshop to learn how to do it from the first endpoint definition to long term maintenance.

We are also on the lookout for helpers and helping will be worth your time. Please check out the helpertool.

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Event organisers

Main event organiser Yves Hersener

Co-organisers