DevOps

Presenters Somtochi Onyekwere Source InfoQ podcast Level Up Your Distributed Systems: Why Fly.io is Betting on Speed with corrosion and CRDTs! 🚀 Hey tech enthusiasts! Ever found yourself staring at a loading spinner, wishing your global application data could just… be there? You’re not alone! The world of distributed systems is constantly evolving, balancing the need for data consistency with the ever-present demand for blazing-fast performance. Recently, Sini Pinchala, InfoQ’s lead editor for the AIML and data engineering community, sat down with Samtochi, a brilliant software engineer from Fly.io, to dive deep into these very challenges and unveil some exciting advancements. Their discussion revolved around Fly.io’s innovative open-source distributed system, corrosion, and its fascinating reliance on eventual consistency and Conflict-Free Replicated Data Types (CRDTs). Get ready to have your mind expanded! ✨ ...

Presenters Charles Huyghe Source apidays Paris 2025 🚀 Navigating the Integration Evolution: How to Prepare for AI-Powered Architectures 💡 The buzz around AI is undeniable. But before we can truly leverage its power, many organizations face a critical hurdle: integration. Charles, a seasoned integration expert, recently shared some invaluable insights on this journey at a recent tech conference, outlining the challenges and providing a practical roadmap for transitioning from legacy systems to modern, AI-ready architectures. Let’s dive in! ...

Presenters Renaud Cleach Source apidays Paris 2025 🚀 Architecting for Composability: From CORBA to AI Agents 🤖 The IT landscape is changing fast. We’re moving beyond monolithic systems and complex integrations towards a future where applications are modular, flexible, and can be assembled like LEGO bricks. At a recent tech conference, a seasoned technical leader from Cooperative (a large French retailer cooperative, ranked fourth in France) shared their journey towards building a composable IT architecture – and the key to unlocking this future? APIs. ...

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 Cyrille Martraire Thomas Nansot Source apidays Paris 2025 🚀 AI-Powered API Migration: Unexpected Turns & the Power of Hybrid Approaches 💡 Migrating legacy systems is rarely a walk in the park. But what happens when you throw AI into the mix? The Challenge: A Legacy API in Need of a Modern Makeover 🛠️ MobilityCo faced a classic dilemma: modernize a massive, complex legacy API while simultaneously pushing forward with ambitious AI initiatives. The sheer scale of the API made traditional end-to-end testing a non-starter. The engineering director, Thomas, recognized the need for external expertise and brought in Arola, a software craft consultancy led by Cyrille. The core challenge? Migrating this behemoth to a new, standard-based API while maintaining customer confidence and minimizing risk. And, crucially, anticipating frequent changes to the new API contract – potentially weekly. ...