New features and a BIG Announcement! Specmatic is bringing apidays to India!

In the past few months, we have launched a flurry of exciting features, presented at several global conferences and onboarded several new team members. We are bringing apidays to India! This is all part of our mission to help organizations worldwide build more reliable, maintainable, and future-ready APIs. 

Apidays India 2025: Future-Proof APIs for Billions! 

Mark your calendars! Specmatic is thrilled to be organising apidays India 2025 in Bengaluru on October 8-9. This premier gathering will explore how APIs are powering India’s explosive digital transformation, with industry experts sharing insights on scaling, securing, and monetizing APIs that serve billions of users across finance, healthcare, retail, and beyond. 

We’re seeking brilliant minds to share their API wisdom! If you’ve conquered challenges in API design, testing, governance, or security, we want your proposal. Join us as we dive into the technologies and strategies reshaping India’s digital landscape – it’s going to be API-tastic! 

Women in APIs: GET /Connecting 

Breaking the Silence, Amplifying Voices   

Specmatic in partnership with Women in APIs & API’s First is powering up a Women in APIs meetup on June 28, 2025, in Bengaluru – a high-energy companion event to apidays India that’s dedicated to amplifying underrepresented voices in tech, especially women!  

 We’re putting together a video series spotlighting the amazing women who have already found a public voice in the API ecosystem. Real stories, real impact. Know someone with an inspiring API journey worth sharing? Maybe that’s you? Reply to this email and help us amplify these voices. 

Specmatic is growing! 

We’re double down on our commitment to expanding Specmatic and tackling “integration hell” head-on. So far this year we have welcomed 4 new members to the Specmatic team. 

Kaushal Vora (Lead SRE) – Polyglot engineer with end-to-end expertise in cloud-native systems, CI/CD, infrastructure as code, and full-stack development across modern frontend and backend technologies. 

Ketan Padegaonkar (Director of Engineering) – an experienced full-stack engineer and dedicated open-source enthusiast, with nearly two decades of expertise in enhancing engineering effectiveness for teams. 

Nilesh Mivada (Tech Generalist) – Polyglot engineer and chaos tamer: simplifying complexity through automation and innovation. 

Sidharth Masaldaan (Principal Architect) – Obsessed about making that which is complex, simple. Experience with distributed systems design, microservices and system integration. 

Global Impact 

The team continues to be busy travelling the world spreading the word about Specmatic and how Contract Driven Development can revolutionise the process of API development. 

The team has made appearances at apidays Paris and Singapore, Developer Week in Santa Clara USA and back home at Agile India in Bengaluru. Check out the videos on the Specmatic YouTube channel. 

Upcoming events 

In the next month or two we’ll be heading to apidays New York in May and apidays Munich in July. 

Innovation at Scale: Beyond REST 

While REST APIs remain crucial, Specmatic has been expanding into new territories with expanded support for gRPC, GraphQL and AsyncAPI 3.0. This strategic evolution reflects our commitment to meeting developers where they are, regardless of their chosen API specifications. 

Enhanced Developer Experience   

• Interactive Examples GUI revolutionize how teams’ author and verify examples for schema validity and even automatically fix issues 

• The new HTML API Coverage Report format and externalized test data capabilities streamline testing workflows 

Introduction of OpenAPI Overlays provides unprecedented flexibility in API augmentation for both OpenAPI as well as AsyncAPI 

Enterprise-Grade Capabilities 

• Advanced authentication mechanisms and proxy support for complex deployment scenarios based on standard security schemes in API specifications 

• Stateful stub (Virtual Service) capabilities for emulating real application like behaviour with a completely #NOCODE approach 

• Backward compatibility checking to prevent breaking changes 

• AsyncAPI 3.0 support for robust event-driven architecture testing, now also available with Avro support.  

Advanced Features 

• Extensible schema support for custom validation rules 

• Support for Polymorphic Types, Discriminator and Regular Expressions for comprehensive contract testing, stubbing and backward compatibility checks 

• Dictionary generation and substitution for domain relevant test and stub data 

The API landscape continues to evolve at an unprecedented pace. To give you a glimpse, this quarter we are ready to roll-out: 

• Arazzo support 

• OpenAPI links 

Please refer to our Feature Overview for a detailed breakdown of specification-wise features. 

Let’s keep innovating APIs together. Until next time!