API design is where culture and tech meet each other
summary
Adyen runs dozens of public APIs and thousands of internal services serving hundreds of thousands of API calls per minute and processing over €300 billion last year, so governance must scale without central bottlenecks. A federated API review group enforces a living style guide, automates rules with Spectral, publishes a public versioning policy, practices design‑first with OpenAPI and uses Stoplight for visual collaboration and contract testing to keep evolving without breaking consumers.
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chapters (16)
- 0:00Intro
- 1:35Welcome
- 2:10Alekseis background
- 3:18API design discussion
- 4:00What we do
- 4:55API landscape
- 5:57Managing APIs
- 7:00Centralized Governance
- 7:51Hybrid Design
- 8:13Embedding API Design
- 8:28API Design Culture
- 11:00Done for Public APIs
- 11:27How to launch a good API
- 12:50API governance
- 17:35API tooling
- 18:22Summary
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