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.
Fawziyah Alebiosu
Software Engineer @Imprint
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.
Ryan Scott Brown
Principal Engineer @Crunchyroll, Previously @Red Hat, @Trek10, and @Vendia
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.
Emmanuel Paraskakis
Founder & CEO @Level 250
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 onceāAds, Games, Live events, and entirely new kinds of content. Each pulled the core entities in different, sometimes contradictory directions.
Aarti Gupta
Staff Engineer @Netflix
MCP Tools Influencing APIs for Agents
Monday Nov 16 / 02:45PM PST
Details coming soon.