Modern API Design for Humans and Agents

Sharpen your approach to designing APIs that stand the test of time, focusing on usability, evolvability, and real-world constraints.

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The Schema Was Never Enough: The World in Protocols

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

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

Date

Monday Nov 16 / 10:35AM PST

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Track Host

Krys Flores

Staff Software Engineer @Crunchyroll, Host of O'Reilly's The Staff Engineer's Career Roadmap

Krys Flores is a Staff Software Engineer at Crunchyroll on the Search and Recommendations team. She has previously held Staff Software Engineer roles at Carta and Lob, and earlier in her career worked at Simple Habit and Nordstromrack.com | HauteLook.

A self-taught engineer, Krys found her path into tech through persistence and curiosity and has built a career she loves. She is passionate about empowering underrepresented communities through mentoring, sponsoring, and speaking. She also shares resources to support those transitioning into tech.

Krys is also the host of O'Reilly's The Staff Engineers Career Roadmap webinar, where she answers four hours of questions about:

  • What is the difference between a senior and a staff engineer?
  • What should I do if I want to get promoted to staff engineer at my current company?
  • What should I do if I want to get hired into a staff engineering role?
  • What resources can I use to get there? (Hint: Krys includes tons of handouts and working sessions during the webinar.)
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