Apidays Live Hong Kong 2020
2020-10-08
Hong Kong, Hong Kong
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Apidays LIVE Hong Kong 2020: J Fantenberg | J Fantenberg | 24m |
Financial services need a digital identity foundation: APIs carry consent, authentication and authorization so banks can deliver real-time onboarding with… | ||
| The Future of Legacy | Zeev Avidan | 22m |
Argues that legacy systems become first-class digital assets by generating automatic code generation of self-contained Java components as integration stacks… | ||
| Connectivity Rules Everything Around Us | Marco Palladino | 26m |
Software shifts from CPU to network as monoliths become microservices, so connection failures—not code—become the main outage cause. Solution: run tiny Envoy… | ||
| Achieving true agility through programmability | Asanka Abeysinghe | 21m |
Claims that only 4% achieve true agility and that the blocker is architecture not methodology, then lays out a concrete path: treat APIs as foundation, build… | ||
| Authorised is Not a Yes/No Question | Ben Dechrai | 21m |
Authorization is not a binary yes/no; the talk contrasts ABAC and RBAC and demonstrates a practical RBAC flow using Auth0, a Gatsby front end and an Express… | ||
| Art and Science of Rate Limits for APIs | Shahnawaz Backer | 25m |
APIdays Hong Kong 2020 frames rate limits as both security and business controls, citing a national ID API that leaks large chunks of data because no rate… | ||
| API Abuse - Comprehension and Prevention | David Stewart | 26m |
Claims ability to cut fraudulent API traffic and costs by 90% in 30 days using an embedded SDK plus cloud DNA check that issues short-lived JWT tokens. Case… | ||
| Fuzzing API to identify API1: broken object level authorization control | Stanley Chou | 23m |
Fuzzing identifies API1 broken object-level authorization and API5 broken function-level authorization by iterating ID patterns and replacing body values… | ||
| Orchestrating Workflow for Microservices Integration | Donnie Prakoso | 25m |
Shows how to implement reliable orchestration for microservices using AWS Step Functions with concrete artifacts: a JSON state machine in Amazon States… | ||
| Orchestrating APIs at Scale | Hieu Nguyen Nhu | 26m |
Shows a repeatable GitOps pipeline that provisions Azure API Management across subsidiaries using Terraform landing zones and CI (Azure Pipelines/GitHub… | ||
| Co-creating API Ecosystem for Financial Services | Richard Lord | 30m |
Less than 10 markets worldwide have enacted open banking law and three active APAC markets (Hong Kong, Singapore, Australia) are rolling out APIs; banks report… | ||
| State of the API Economy | Alan Glickenhouse | 29m |
API economy is strong with clear drivers: agility and time to market from APIs and microservices, widespread cloud location transparency to move workloads… | ||
| Data Gateways: Building “Data-as-a-Service” for the Hybrid Cloud | Hugo Guerrero | 28m |
Argues that a data gateway is an API gateway for the data layer, providing a virtualized single view over heterogeneous stores with federation, caching and… | ||
| Apidays LIVE Hong Kong 2020 | Richard Lord | 24m |
HSBC reports a sharp 2020 uptick in digital channel use and argues banking moves to a connected era powered by APIs, participating in open banking and… | ||
| Going API First in Financial Services within Greater China | Greg Au-Yeung | 27m |
Maps China’s regulatory patchwork (FSDC, CBIRC, CSRC) to concrete API moves: Tencent’s MyBank and WeBank are internet-bank license experiments that reach… | ||
| Beyond Open Banking - Open Innovation & Open Business | Alex Chan | 26m |
Claim: open banking delivers few customer benefits because banks center products not journeys. Recommendation: create an open business line that owns… | ||
| How API-as-a-Service can Improve CX, Scalability, and Security | Rob Whiteley | 25m |
Proposes building an internal API cloud that decouples API definition from runtime, automates API lifecycle in CI/CD (Swagger, YAML, Git), and pushes gateway… | ||
| Digital Banking Survey in HK and How it Relates to Open Banking | Barry Chan | 24m |
A one‑to‑one survey interviews 35 senior banking executives from 17 traditional banks and three virtual banks in Hong Kong and finds concrete gaps: 75% say… | ||
| Open Banking, Yin and Yang in Hong Kong | Simon Redfern | 28m |
Open Bank Project presents a production-ready middleware platform that exposes 350+ pre-built Scala APIs over REST, supports OAuth2/OpenID and e‑ID… | ||
| The future of financial institutions | Julian Schillinger | 21m |
Claim: APIs break banks into interchangeable layers so incumbents either become platforms via Deutsche Bank + Traxpay style integrations or specialist… | ||
| Digital Native’s Needs & Wants from Financial Services Providers | Johan Fantenberg | 24m |
Digital natives demand real-time onboarding with eKYC, biometric auth (Face ID/WebAuthn) and liveness detection to defeat deepfakes, while APIs must support… | ||
| Fast Track the Open Banking Ecosystem with Platform Business Model | Garry Sien | 26m |
Alibaba Cloud outlines a concrete path: use cloud, AI and big data plus open APIs to expose payment, maps, marketing and logistics capabilities; Hong Kong… | ||
| The Business of APIs | Jed Ng | 26m |
Argues that APIs create outsized business value vs. SaaS using market multiples (SaaS ~30–50x revenue, API companies 70–100x), cites a 2017 study showing 10.3%… | ||
| Health oriented API design for the public conversation | Daniele Bernardi | 24m |
Twitter embeds contextual annotations embedded in v2 payload so NLP named‑entity recognition tags tweets (teams, holidays, topics) rather than relying on huge… | ||
| Building an API Client SDK | Jenks Guo | 25m |
Xero runs ~11 API sets (about 100 endpoints) driving 800 million API calls/month and 2.5 million webhooks, and maintains SDKs used by thousands of developers… | ||
| The three things your developer portal can't live without | Ilona Koren-Deutsch | 26m |
Developer portals need three concrete things: accuracy via the 30/90 review cadence (review at 30% for IA, 90% for details), a published SLA for doc fixes… | ||
| Getting Started with AsyncAPI | Paul Taylor | 22m |
AsyncAPI v2 specifies a single file per application (YAML used here) with four sections: info, servers, channels, components; bindings hold protocol details… | ||
| Solving Challenges in API Testing to Achieve More Agile Development | Steve Coochin | 23m |
Argues for starting testing by middle development and using the OpenAPI contract to run parallel implementation and tests, with automated SDK generation… | ||
| AsyncAPI & The future of API specs | Fran Méndez | 27m |
Created three years ago because OpenAPI cannot express event-driven APIs, AsyncAPI defines event schemas, supports multiple protocols (MQTT, Kafka, WebSockets)… | ||
| The trouble with webhooks | Phil Nash | 24m |
Webhooks are essential but confusing so the platform ships concrete fixes: Twimlets and Toolbins provide ready PHP/XML endpoints developers actually use, ngrok… | ||
| WT* is JWT? | Maciej Treder | 30m |
Explains that JWT commonly equals JWS (signed token) and shows RSA key math, cites key sizes from 1024 to 4000 bit keys, and describes claims (registered… | ||
| Why you need a DevRel team for your API | Anna Tsolakou | 26m |
Apidays LIVE Hong Kong
October 8, 2020
Why you need a DevRel team for your API
Anna Tsolakou, Developer Advocate at Amadeus
Speakers slides from the… | ||
| Let's get started development of API client library | Atsushi Nakatsugawa | 24m |
Argues that providing SDKs drives adoption and saves developers from raw HTTP, backed by concrete community SDKs: NIF Cloud Mobile Backend server-side… | ||
| APIs and Event Streaming Dualty | Sumeet Puri | 29m |
Claims that REST APIs remain for north–south sync calls while business logic benefits from an event mesh for east–west async communication, with guaranteed… | ||
| FinTech Community Supporting Open Financial Services | Cathy Lo | 27m |
Hong Kong Science Park launches the Open X program to pre-qualify fintechs and third‑party service providers for open banking: registration opens 1 November… | ||
| SME Lending Platform to Acquire Loan through API | Anson Suen | 20m |
FundPark runs an online supply‑chain finance platform that originates SME assets and routes them to funds and banks, claiming to fill a $2.1–2.6 trillion… | ||
| Empowering Travellers in a Post-covid World | Dr. James Butler | 24m |
Proof of concept of Ready Travel at Cathay Pacific HQ deploys kiosks plus a mobile app that let users buy or withdraw 30+ currencies 24/7 from a Hong Kong… | ||
| ESG Alternative Data: From Collection to Delivering Interface | Steve Lee | 26m |
MioTech claims coverage of more than 100,000 Greater China companies with 200+ datapoints per entity, combining self‑disclosed reports and high‑velocity… | ||
| Enabling AML Services through API to Gain Efiiciency | Wallace Chow | 26m |
Regtics builds a suite of APIs that centralize KYC by turning onboarding steps into callable services: a customer-scoring API that ingests form fields and… | ||
| API for AI Users Clustering and Recommender System | Amice Wong | 26m |
Bachcode offers an API-backed platform called we healthier that clusters users and serves recommendations; it clusters a 40,000-user dataset with unsupervised… | ||
| Helping SMEs to Get 100% Loan Guarantees through OCR API during Covid | Hinnes Lung | 27m |
Shows an OCR API that extracts addresses and structured transactions (dates, amounts, descriptions) from scanned IDs and bank‑statement PDFs to automate… | ||
| Access Control for your API Endpoints with Auth0 | John Lim | 48m |
Creates an Auth0 tenant and a JavaScript single‑page app, runs it over HTTPS, and uses the Auth0 SPA SDK to get an ID token and then an access token for an… | ||
| Build your APIs and DevOps Hybrid Skills | Forest Jing | 55m |
Shows a concrete DevOps path used in Chinese firms: a GitLab feature branch triggers a Jenkins + GitLab pipeline that runs a SonarQube code quality scan… | ||
| Protecting API Workloads Against OWASP and Programming Language CVE's | Samuel Leung, Rajesh Bavanantham | 54m |
Deploys a small demo stack via Terraform: three microservices on GCP behind NGINX Plus as an edge API gateway, integrated with Okta (OpenID Connect) to issue… | ||
| The Evolution of API Drive Integration | Nicky Choo | 54m |
Claims that 84% fail of digital transformations do so from siloed data and bad integration, and shows concrete fixes: use API gateways plus application… | ||
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