The journey towards API Platform 3

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A long-time maintainer recounts the planning and engineering work behind API Platform 3, describing how the team moved from bug fixes to designing a major release while keeping Symfony backward compatibility. The talk covers the development process, obstacles and mistakes encountered, organizational choices to smooth upgrades, and an overview of all new features in version 3.

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1. 0:00Introduction to API Platform
2. 5:02Early API Platform origins
3. 10:56API Platform 2.x features
4. 16:13Event reservation system demo
5. 20:33Transforming resources in API Platform
6. 25:15Transaction tracing in API Platform
7. 27:57Integration and extensions
8. 30:44Indexing strategies
9. 32:36Q&A and closing remarks

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