Unconference: Modern API Design

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APIs That Can't Afford to Be Wrong: Lessons from Moving Money

Monday Nov 16 / 10:35AM PST

Most API design advice assumes a forgiving environment: retries are cheap, data has a single source of truth, and a slow response is only an inconvenience. Financial infrastructure assumes none of that. Card networks give you three seconds to auth or decline.

Speaker image - Fawziyah Alebiosu

Fawziyah Alebiosu

Software Engineer @Imprint

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The Schema Was Never Enough: The World in Protocols

Monday Nov 16 / 01:35PM PST

Every reliable process in the world is a protocol: auctions, double-entry bookkeeping, brokerage account transfers, or APIs. Protocols reduce ambiguity but the world remains messy.

Speaker image - Ryan  Scott Brown

Ryan Scott Brown

Principal Engineer @Crunchyroll, Previously @Red Hat, @Trek10, and @Vendia

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Everything I Knew About Developer Experience Is Wrong for Agents

Monday Nov 16 / 11:45AM PST

Most of what we know about developer experience we learned from humans. Agents are a different user, and some of our best practices quietly work against them.

Speaker image - Emmanuel Paraskakis

Emmanuel Paraskakis

Founder & CEO @Level 250

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Stop Fighting the Remodel: API Design for Models That Outgrew Their Boundaries

Monday Nov 16 / 05:05PM PST

Every domain model has a breaking point. At Netflix, ours arrived all at once—Ads, Games, Live events, and entirely new kinds of content. Each pulled the core entities in different, sometimes contradictory directions.

Speaker image - Aarti Gupta

Aarti Gupta

Staff Engineer @Netflix

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MCP Tools Influencing APIs for Agents

Monday Nov 16 / 02:45PM PST

Details coming soon.