Product Engineering

Presenters Naresh Jain Source apidays Paris 2025 🚀 Taming the Lambda Beast: How Async API and Specmatic Can Save Your Kafka Data Pipelines 🛠️ Let’s face it: building and maintaining complex data pipelines, especially those leveraging Kafka and Lambda functions, can feel like wrangling a hydra. You add one function, and two more pop up with potential integration issues! Many companies find themselves managing a staggering 30-35 Lambda functions within their data pipelines – a recipe for debugging nightmares. Ever spent hours chasing a single error message that bounces around through multiple functions, developed by different teams, with no clear point of origin? Yeah, we’ve all been there. ...

Presenters Radhouane Jrad Source apidays Paris 2025 🚀 Reality Check: Navigating the AI Hype and Building Grounded Solutions 💡 The AI revolution is here, but is it living up to the hype? At a recent tech conference, seasoned technical analyst Red Radhouane delivered a refreshing dose of realism, urging us to move beyond the buzzwords and focus on practical, sustainable AI implementation. Forget the “spaghetti on the wall” approach – it’s time to build AI solutions that actually deliver value. Let’s dive into the key takeaways! ...

Presenters Ahmet Soormally Source apidays Paris 2025 🚀 GraphQL, LLMs, and MCP: Supercharging Your AI-Powered APIs ✨ The future of AI is here, and it’s powered by Large Language Models (LLMs). But connecting these powerful models to your existing systems isn’t as straightforward as you might think. At a recent presentation, Alex Somali, Principal Solutions Engineer at Wonderraph, laid out a compelling case for a powerful combination: GraphQL, LLMs, and Model Context Protocol (MCPs). Let’s dive in and see how this trio can unlock a new level of AI-powered API capabilities. ...

Presenters Lin Sun Source apidays Paris 2025 🚀 Securing & Deploying Your Mesh Command Platform (MCP) Servers: A Deep Dive 🌐 The world of AI agents and tools is exploding, and managing them effectively – especially as you scale – is becoming a critical challenge. At a recent tech conference, Lynson tackled this head-on with a fantastic presentation on securing and deploying Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers. Forget wrestling with individual server configurations; this approach offers a streamlined, scalable solution. Let’s break down the key takeaways! ...

Presenters Chris Roberts Source apidays Paris 2025 🚀 The Hacker’s Mindset: Why We Still Need Curious “Chaotic Good” Professionals 🛠️ Hey everyone! 👋 Ever wondered what it really means to be a “hacker”? The media often paints a picture of basement-dwelling criminals, but the reality is far more nuanced – and vital to our digital world. In a recent conference presentation, a seasoned hacker (who prefers to remain playfully anonymous) shed light on the hacker mindset, why it’s more important than ever, and how we can all benefit from engaging with security professionals. Let’s dive in! ...