From Design to Deployment: API Workflows for DevOps Success

In this hands-on session, we'll demonstrate practical strategies for organizations that want to enhance their API capabilities without disrupting their traditional business model.

Most organizations aren't Stripe or Twilio—APIs aren't their core product. Yet in today's connected landscape, becoming API-capable is no longer optional. The good news? You don't need a complete architectural overhaul or a flashy API portal to unlock the value of APIs. What you need is a pragmatic approach that meets you where you are and integrates seamlessly into your existing development workflows.

In this hands-on session, we'll demonstrate practical strategies for organizations that want to enhance their API capabilities without disrupting their traditional business model. We'll show you how to leverage SmartBear's API tools throughout your CI/CD pipeline to achieve API excellence incrementally.

Whether you're retrofitting APIs onto legacy systems, managing a mixed SOAP-to-REST migration, or simply trying to understand what APIs you actually have, this session will demonstrate how to:

• Design with Governance in Mind: Use Spectral rules and centralized governance to establish and enforce API standards across teams, ensuring consistency even as you scale your API footprint
• Prevent Breaking Changes: Implement contract testing that validates API definitions against your codebase, catching breaking changes before they reach production and protecting your partner integrations
• Automate Functional Testing: Deploy functional and performance tests within your pipeline to verify API behavior continuously, reducing manual QA overhead and increasing deployment confidence
• Create Dynamic API Sandboxes: Spin up virtual APIs based on your API definitions and deploy them during CI/CD for use during end-to-end testing
• Documentation as Code: Ensure that your API portal is always up-to-date with any changes to API implementation

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