Apidays Live Hong Kong 2021

Old integration patterns never die; we just get new ones! This session starts by looking backward at the integration challenges that led to the development of APIs. But, believing that we have completely solved all challenges in this area and there is nothing else that needs to be done is clearly wrong. So, what are the next challenges that need to be addressed and how will we address them? Come to this session to find out.

This talk explores the economic value of APIs, the importance of data liquidity--an organization's ability to serve up the right data in the right context at the right time--in maximizing that value, and the vital role that APIs play in the modern data ecosystem. Attendees will learn practical techniques to promote data liquidity while protecting against data leakage.

Learn about why mocking is useful when testing APIs and what are the mocking tools available, some do's and don'ts on mocking

APIs are the products of the 21st century. As we build out API systems, we find that we are constantly learning from product journeys. We propose a new kind of supply chain - the Integrated Supply Chain for APIs (ISCA) - which is needed by any organization looking to create and monetize API products, either directly or indirectly. In this session, Asanka will outline our vision of the ISCA, identify five key patterns for success, and give a blueprint for creating a digital business based on API products.

We would like to share how JETCO APIX develop the API ecosystem and the potential opportunities of Banking Open API Phase III & IV.

Clive will explain the concept and application of federated learning in this session, how federated learning provides a secure computing framework based on data privacy protection and supports the secure computation of various algorithms, including machine learning and deep learning. In addition, Clive will share how to use Federated Learning Solution in production use cases.

Often developers design APIs that expose more than is needed - unnecessary fields, redundant relationships, and endpoints that no one asked for. These kinds of practices later on introduce communication overhead, extra maintenance costs, negative performance impacts, and waste time that could have been spent better otherwise. We'll posll walk through how to design minimal APIs that are straightforward to use, and that are exactly what our consumers need!

One of the challenges in many of the growing number of regulated API sectors is agreeing standards of measurement between providers, users and regulators. How do you agree performance when, in reality, both sides in the API contract can ‘prove’ the other is lying.

This talk will focus on some of the challenges seen in regulated API environments such as those in the UK with OBIE, Europe with PSD, Australia with CDR and the growing likelihood of regulation from the CBR in the US.

Finally we will explore some of the ways you can build out that trust framework and what work remains to be done in terms of security, business standards and so on.

APIs have become both engines of innovation and the source of competitive differentiation. Incorporating APIs as part of your overall IT strategy can help companies deliver seamless experiences for developers, customers, and partners to win in the digital economy. Adopting the right set of technologies is instrumental to the success of an enterprise’s API strategy. A variety of technologies are available to cater to the various aspects of the API lifecycle from development to management to deployment to consumption etc. A common ingredient that underpins all these stages is the foundational platform. In this session we will discuss the potential hurdles of running and managing APIs in a hybrid and multi-cloud environment and how companies can build a resilient, scalable and interoperable foundation for their APIs with the SUSE Rancher and Kubernetes solution.

Imagine a world where Business and IT are speaking the same language of APIs with shared OKRs of business influence and impact. Everyday, we wake up to be inspired by the power of APIs. What if we can tell the world the same narrative from API design to API lifecycle management.

Join me in the session to hear my story of how I joined the API movement as the Product Marketing Manager for API Management, Boomi in 2016 and in 2020 advocating for Women in APIs to bring diversity, inclusion and belonging around the world.

Data is not just the most important asset in the digital economy but also our customer's voice. Unfortunately, not many companies can successfully unleash the power of data to create a delightful customer experience. One of the key reasons is the lack of data. Collaboration among enterprises to exchange data was difficult due to lack of trust, partnership model, and technological challenges. The uprising adoption of APIs in enterprises can potentially resolve these issues. Companies, such as HSBC, DBS, HKTVMall, Klook, etc., have launched their API strategies to serve their customers better through API collaboration. In this session, Dr. Charm will talk about how enterprises can unleash the power of big data and innovation to create a delightful customer journey with API collaboration.

In this session, I will share about use case scenarios and how do we build AI / Machine Learning model API to serve for Digital Apps.

All of the ways to monetize your API-led strategy and business models (which I'm submitting articles for on apiscene) that relate to the APIs and model customers experience through the AWS Marketplace: Specifically focusing on full API life cycle management (objective, vendor neutral third party view), integration iPaaS, and low and no code I will have specific Customer stories and how developers saved time and were able to do more with what they have, faster. For each apidays region, I will have specific local stories relevant to the topics the local organizers and I have collaborated on. For example, Marjukka reached out about APIOps for Finland & North and Paul reached out for Australia.

Looking beyond just OpenBanking and the HKMA Open API initiatives aiming at un-bundling financial services, the next success of financial services related players lies in the ability to quickly create new product re-bundles by orchestrating services in ecosystems and maximizing the value captures from the increasingly distinctive customer needs. It is a race to become the winning orchestrator in ecosystems. In this session, we look at a conceptual solution framework important to the success of the orchestrator, the technology elements it requires and how the future development should look like.

I will talk about the common pattern that Azure can help to orchestrate calls to various enterprise systems across clouds and on premises. In this session, you will learn about how we use this pattern to support OpenAPI initiative in key industries.

As we are getting into a new stage of data driven economy, let's take a peep into some use cases that can bring win-win to SMEs, financial institutions and fintechs, at the same time creating a smarter and more vibrant SME ecosystem that ultimately benefits the society.

With Apache Kafka’s rise for event-driven architectures, developers require a specification to design effective event-driven APIs. AsyncAPI has been developed based on OpenAPI to define the endpoints and schemas of brokers and topics. For Kafka applications, the broker’s design to handle high throughput serialized payloads brings challenges for consumers and producers managing the structure of the message. For this reason, a registry becomes critical to achieve schema governance.

Apicurio Registry is an end-to-end solution to store API definitions and schemas for Kafka applications. The project includes serializers, deserializers, and additional tooling. The registry supports several types of artifacts like OpenAPI, AsyncAPI, GraphQL, Apache Avro, Google protocol buffers, JSON Schema, Kafka Connect schema, WSDL, XML Schema (XSD). It also checks them for validity and compatibility rules.

In this session, we will be covering the following topics:

Sharing on technology trend, business application and use cases of the captioned privacy enhanced computation technique

Technical audiences require very very different ways of engaging. This talk is going to explain tricks and tips on starting up a tech community.

Creating a successful API requires a proper process from concept and design, through development, and into ongoing maintenance and good developer support. There are many steps to a good API. As developer expectations for better-quality APIs increase, tools have made it easier to do this well. This was only possible with the rise of OpenAPI as a central schema upon which other tools could rely. Looking at the full API Product Lifecycle to design an API people will use, Jeremy Glassenberg will share the newest tools -- and potentially upcoming opportunities -- to better automate the planning and creation of a solid developer program with OpenAPI at the center.

We continue to find out the way to build and provide fully automated API Gateway based on APIs that are not restricted by traditional mindsets (one type of API for everything). Times changed and fortunately HTTP protocol has evolved as well! New versions of the HTTP protocol along with Protocol Buffer and gRPC and GraphQL allow us now to do more things in a faster and more efficient way. So, APIs using different styles and protocols are used in Adidas as part of a unified policy regarding integration of data across different systems worldwide. Real-Time processing, streaming of big chunk of data, conditional distribution, consumer load balancing and other amazing features are implemented and used in HTTP-based APIs providing new capabilities and new roles beyond traditional REST-like APIs.

The other side of the question is about the description ad automation of these APIs. A new specification model is needed to provide usage, exploitation and business semantics metadata to APIs so that automated CI/CD pipelines can provide the right configuration to the API Gateway.

The material presented during the session is based on lessons learned the way of building up these APIs where data integrity and stream fault-tolerance is critical.

When modernizing applications, it is crucial to understand what functions should be broken out of a monolithic application and how granular you should go with your micro-services. The API layer plays an essential role in this kind of architecture. In this session, we will elaborate how this model works with real-life examples.

There is a strong resurgence in interest in event driven architecture. However, RESTful APIs are not always a good model for asynchronous exposure. We will explore the relationship between API management, and event endpoint management, but also the differences. We will also discuss the pros and cons of various protocols and consider what the future might look like for multi-form API management.

Organizations are increasingly becoming more distributed and decoupled so they can deploy more often and improve reliability. However, as we accelerate our digitalization and move to microservices, it is imperative to tighten up our security to prevent intrusions and attacks into our systems. The more moving parts we have, the bigger the attack surface becomes. Zero-trust security is no longer a nice-to-have – it’s a must-have.

In this session, Kong CTO and Co-Founder Marco Palladino will explore what zero-trust security is, why we need it and implementation best practices. He will discuss:

Data Economy is already here, but many companies & public organizations are either embracing it without realizing how it impacts their business and their ecosystem or they are not sure how and what data to monetize. APIs are involved in many ways, but what steps should you take? What does the research say? What are methods you could use? Introducing the open online course Introduction to Data Economy and walking through using the open and Lean APIOps Cycles method.

Hackathons are well-known as caffeine-fueled frenetic innovation weekends. But beyond the prizes and the pizza, these events present the perfect opportunity for companies to test and measure the adoption of their APIs.

This talk will share the lessons we at Amadeus learned during the organization of several Hackathons, and show you how to organize your own hackathon from scratch and extract the maximum value from these events.

While banks are busy figuring out how to best implement and leverage OpenBanking (e.g. HKMA phase III and IV), we will look ahead at what’s next for banks and financial services. Current OpenBanking and API initiatives focus on un-bundling financial services, moving from a package deal of banking services, to smaller, more autonomous, API-enabled Banking-as-a-Service (BaaS) offers. The logical next stage in the evolution of banking products will be a re-bundling of these API products, however, in completely new ways than banks have done in the past. In the next stage, we will likely see financial services deeply embedded in a variety of non-financial products, resulting in the long tail of more customer-centric, tailored, and relevant niche products. If enough niche products for different market niches can form, they stand a good chance to eat significant market share from today's mass market banking offers. Today banks mainly compete against other banks just like them, but will increasingly face competition from players outside the financial services industry with different business models, technology stacks and less regulatory constraints. What are the threats and opportunities for the financial services world?

At the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, Johns Hopkins University worked on gathering and refining data from multiple sources and provided the world with a Github repository and a bunch of CSV files. The Problem? It’s nearly impossible to build anything from raw data like this.

In this live coding session, MongoDB Developer Advocate Maxime Beugnet will show you how to build a serverless REST and a GraphQL API based on this dataset using Python and the MongoDB Data Platform. We are finally going to put serverless and the MongoDB generous free tier to good use!

GraphQL is way more than just a language for APIs. It offers a unique way to describe your entire enterprise as a requestable graph. We'll see during this speech and through concrete examples how GraphQL can empower your company by reducing time & code, creating more robust apps, simplifying development and building trust in your organization.

Large public GraphQL endpoints have all advertised a notion of GraphQL cost for years, and various GraphQL servers and open source projects have implemented GraphQL cost calculations. In 2021, an effort has begun to standardize how systems communicate GraphQL cost to each other, which has promise to dramatically ease securing these systems and thus opening up many more big public GraphQL endpoints. Join us to learn about this effort, and how it can benefit you and your GraphQL strategy.

A workshop to walkthrough how to build event-driven APIs using ksqlDB on Confluent Platform

Following the Phase III & IV Open API implementation plan of the Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) released in May, the banks will further speed up their journeys to open up services and data for third-party service providers collaboration in order to support new use cases based on customer consents. IBM, supporting open banking initiatives globally, is going to share the point-of-view and key solution elements for supporting the banking industry to achieve the success.

When you try to improve the experience for using your API you might consider a command line interface. CLIs allow developers to explore the API, automate API usage, and most importantly never leave the keyboard. If you have an OpenAPI spec you can even generate a CLI automatically. But replicating the API for the command line is the baseline, CLIs have so much more potential.

In this talk we'll discuss how Twilio built a CLI for our API and the opportunities it gave us to improve the developer experience of working with the API. With the Twilio CLI we enhanced API endpoints with extra features, helped to demystify webhooks, and let the community create their own plugins to supercharge their experience.

When done right, an API and a CLI are worth more than the sum of their parts.

Open Banking is gaining momentum globally and is quickly becoming the standard for leading Banks & FinTechs worldwide. It is set to disrupt traditional banking business models, but can also pave the way to new and innovative business models that drive customer acquisition and new revenue streams.

In this session, we will explore Open Banking business models, the threats and opportunities of Open Banking, real world Open Banking use cases, and most importantly, strategies for successful Open Banking implementations.

As market understanding and adoption of APIs continues at great pace, it is important to look beyond just the technology. APIs are a new conduit for connected business, so just as we do in the physical world, we need to look at what makes for good business. During this session I will talk about the need for clear commercial engagement and trust as key elements for a success connected business model.

When an API fails, users can't just call in and get help. It's extremely difficult. The whole idea of waiting for things to break in production and then dealing with the fallout of angry customers and lost revenue – accepting some level of failure - is Stone Age thinking. How many problems are you tracking right now that you heard about but can't reproduce? We can actually do much better. How to responsibly gather the API data that makes it possible to know everything. In this session, we’ll discuss how to shift out of triage mode to get ahead of problems. API-first architecture means understanding what information to capture and track, but more importantly, how to quickly find and manage information on user actions and security threats. Even for those old, failing APIs.

This talk will discuss best practices and anti-patterns in API product ownership and product management. They're based on my experiences of working with APIs in a few different companies and the knowledge I've gained from being a Product Owner and also having worked with many others in the same field.

In today’s highly competitive environment, organizations are continuously seeking to increase their growth opportunities, improve their client experience, reduce costs and enhance operational efficiency. Institutions across financial services are embracing APIs to meet these challenges, and to improve the flow of data and information across operations. In turn, APIs open communication channels between programs and, in doing so, enable digital transformation without a full overhaul of legacy infrastructure.

As fintech companies continue to develop modern technology solutions, APIs allow organizations to seamlessly integrate these updates within existing operations. In today’s world, where there is an expectation that the speed of innovation no longer sacrifices customer satisfaction or experience, it’s important for traditional institutions to be able to keep pace.

This talk covers the relevance of APIs in the financial industry, case studies and how businesses can embed financial services in their existing products and become fintech ready.

AsyncAPI is an open source initiative that seeks to improve the current state of Event-Driven Architectures (EDA). The long-term goal is to make working with EDAs as easy as it is to work with REST APIs. AsyncAPI is like OpenAPI, but for the subscribe/notify paradigm (rather than request/response). This will be an introduction, overview and demo of the world of possibilities that opens after adopting AsyncAPI.

Most people with office computer experience have an idea of what a database is. They’ll have seen data entry screens and spreadsheets, and they know that the data resides either on their local computer or on a company server. The cloud has made data storage more abstract, trouble-free and scalable - but the hosting provider and data manager are still in charge. Similarly with traditional financial products: Consumers expect their bank account or insurance policy to be held only by the legal entity they signed their contract with. Their data, transactions, and legal agreements are guarded by large databases with long (barely) human-readable contracts.

Blockchain and smart contracts change everything. They are like the sea to a land lover. There are different rules on the surface and under the sea, which may seem scary from dry land. But there’s most definitely life, and it’s evolving fast.

Simon Redfern, CEO of TESOBE and founder of the Open Bank Project will explore DAO’s (Distributed Autonomous Organisations), Oracles (not the database company), how the land lovers can meet the seafarers - and what banks can offer and consume at the beach bar!

It’s a multi-cloud world and now more than ever critical to be able to manage API lifecycles across any environment, for all APIs. This workshop will walk through how to get started with MuleSoft and how to leverage OAS 3.0, AsyncAPI, and GraphQL to design in any language, implement event-driven architecture faster, and consume multiple APIs in a single request.

The idea is to allow an organization to have multiple API Management platforms due to multi cloud strategies , choices across regional subsidiaries, align with IT needs of the new world, But in order to manage this a platform enablement team is still required which can have an oversight of usage across the landscape of multiple platforms and implement governance along with change and operations. This team should be able to provide platforms these towards API product teams in a vendor agnostic way using a headless management plane (plugin management APIs from the individual platforms). This idea is still at concept phase and has not been implemented yet.

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This workshop goes into details of how you can get comprehensive visibility into the application and infrastructure services powering your APIs - simple, powerful observability.

A robust and effective API-driven business requires a smoothly running CI/CD pipeline for business APIs. WSO2 API Manager delivers the tools you need to make this a reality and bring your APIs into production as quickly as feasible. In this workshop, we'll go over how to set up a Git-based CI/CD pipeline for deploying your OAS as a Managed API in production with ease.

Imagine you've spent quite a few years working for software vendors, educating customers on APIs, modern application design, and digital transformation. But then you switch sides and find yourself working with one of the largest private healthcare providers in APAC to apply what you've learned and face the reality in the middle of a pandemic — that's my story.

In this session we talk about APIs that help fight viruses, innovation but also fragmentation in the healthcare sector, and how interoperability and ecosystem collaboration are the only plausible way forward for the industry.