openworld.apiary.io @manp
THE API WORKFLOW IN 2026
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• Emmanuel Paraskakis,
• VP of Product @ Apiary
• Built API Businesses for the past10 years
/ME
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API WORKFLOW
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279,461 API Designs
APIARY
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• Partnering with Oracle API Management
• Seamless Suite, Covers Entire API Workflow
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HOW WE USED TO BUILD APIs
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• One API at a Time
(Systems Integration)
• Byproduct of existing code:
“You Get What You Get”
• One off:
Consistency, Maintainability Didn’t Matter
HANDCRAFTED
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HOW WE’RE BUILDING APIs
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JUST ADD PEOPLE
• 10’s at a time
(Public APIs, Apps, Steve Yegge’s Rant)
• Manual Processes
• Lack of Control & Project Risk
• Short-Term Gain: Long-Term Pain
• Lack of Automation: Error Prone
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HOW WE'LL NEED TO BUILD APIs
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HIGHLY AUTOMATED
• 1000’s at a time
(Microservices, IoT, Partnerships)
• Establish & Maintain Control
• Consistency & Quality
• Scale & Efficiency
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WE CAN HELP!
• Tools, Specific to API/Service Delivery
• Processes & Best Practices, Designed to Scale
• Automation, for Efficiency & Control
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API GOVERNANCE
• Today: Apiary Style Guide
• Consistency: Easy to Use/Hard to Misuse
• Constrain Protocols, Formats, Vocabulary
• Focus on Semantics:
Make Implementation Details Swappable
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APPLICATION PROFILES
• Today: API Descriptions as Source of Truth
• Data Descriptions:
Common across Enterprise or Industry
• Validations & Domain Data: Reuse
• Capabilities:
What you can do with the Data
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DESIGN DRIVES RUNTIME
• Today: Apiary/Oracle API Management Integration
• Highly Evolved API Gateways/Monitoring
• Advanced Analytics to Understand Consumption
• Resilient Client Management
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VERIFY DEPLOYMENT
• Today: Apiary Automated Testing
• Verify in Continuous Integration
• Deploy Services to Correct Environment
• Avoid the Knightmare!
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MEANINGFUL DISCOVERY
• Today: “Service X lives on IP address a.b.c.d”
• Services will expose Application Profiles
• “Is Service with Capability Y Available?”
• “Is my Dependency, with Capability Z Up?”
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WANT TO TALK APIs?
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Platform Showcase, Middleware
openworld.apiary.io @manp [email protected]