Platform Summit: Avoiding APIpocalypse; API Resiliency Testing FTW!
- 09 Oct 2024
- Conference
Presentation summary
As we build more complex distributed Applications, the resilience of APIs can be the linchpin of application reliability and user satisfaction. This demo will delve into practical tools and techniques used to enhance the resilience of APIs. We will explore how we utilise API specifications for simulating various input data, network conditions and failure modes to test how well the API handles unexpected situations.
This demo will begin with an overview of API resilience — why it matters, and what it means to build robust APIs that gracefully handles flaky dependencies in real-world operations. We’ll discuss the role of contract testing in achieving resilience and how to turn API specifications into executable contracts that can be continuously validated.
We’ll also cover how to integrate with CI/CD pipelines and practices to foster better collaboration between API stakeholders through shared understanding and executable documentation.