Cisco DevNet presents at API Days Paris 2023

12 months after 12 months, this international occasion for API practitioners will get larger. This 12 months the occasion was held within the newly renovated CNIT Forest – a central and simple to affix location within the Paris La Protection enterprise space. Many people had been amazed by the variety of talks and exhibitors exhibiting their newest advances in API Design, API Administration, and Occasion Pushed Administration gateways and the numerous discussions round OpenAPI, JSON-Schema, and GraphQL.

As a sponsor of API Days Paris, Cisco DevNet – Cisco’s developer program – provided a sales space the place we interact 100+ conversations with attendees and mentioned methods to construct and publish sturdy APIs, sharing our expertise driving API High quality and Safety initiatives. (We additionally had the chance to satisfy and, for a few of us, play chess with Laurent Fressinet, the two-time French Chess Champion, and ‘second assistant’ with opening preparation throughout Magnus Carlsen‘ World Chess Championship matches. However that’s a distinct story.)

The significance of API Contracts

DevNet provided 2 talks explaining the significance of API Contracts, how we’re evaluating and scoring our APIs internally, and likewise the challenges that include the lifecycle and administration of OpenAPI paperwork (see sources beneath for recordings and slides).

We had been in a position to present why and the way a profitable API-first technique not solely encourages constant practices when designing, versioning, and documenting APIs, but in addition allows you to look into testing and observing reside visitors to make sure APIs behave as per their contract.

Schedule a reside Panoptica demo

On this regard, we provided demonstrations of the newest model of Panoptica – Cisco Cloud Software Safety resolution – with a specific concentrate on API Safety. In case you are on this subject, we encourage you to schedule a reside demo of Panoptica.

Associated sources

For the numerous of you who couldn’t attend the convention and need to additional develop your abilities and experience on this area, we’ve bought you lined:

• Panoptica Studying Lab: This hands-on tutorial will take you all the best way from zero to detecting API drifts from reside visitors observations.
• Why API Contracts matter: On this discuss we outline what’s an API Contract and the maturity mannequin used at Cisco to guage the standard of API Contracts. We’ll then dive into methods and OpenAPI instruments to mechanically rating APIs.
• Managing OpenAPI Paperwork at scale: On this discuss, we’ll focus on methods for managing OpenAPI paperwork at scale, leveraging classes discovered from Cisco’s intensive use of OpenAPI specs throughout its REST API portfolio. We’ll delve into standardization, model management, automation, and modularization. Be part of this session to achieve insights into challenges confronted in dealing with very massive paperwork, guaranteeing compliance, and sustaining consistency.
• Panoptica API Safety 

We’re trying ahead to assembly once more subsequent 12 months for API Days Paris 2024, Dec 3-Fifth 2024. Hope to see you there!

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