API Lifecycle: Smarter Design and Governance With Open Tooling
Talkat Open Source Summit Europe 2025 · on Tuesday, 2025-08-26· at 16:20· Elicium 2B (Elicium Level 1)·
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Claims that AI plus open tooling cuts friction by letting teams generate and update OpenAPI specs from natural language, then catch design problems early with Spectral linting in CI/CD and enforce runtime rules with OPA for policy-as-code. Demonstrations use OpenAPI/AsyncAPI/GraphQL/gRPC, an MCP mapping to expose APIs to AI agents, and a WSO2-based UI that produces specs, runs lint checks, and shows governance dashboards. Workflow enforces policies at create/update/deploy for organizations managing tens to hundreds of APIs.
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chapters (16)
- 0:00API lifecycle introduction
- 3:58Traditional API management
- 7:15API lifecycle stages
- 9:46Design-first approach
- 14:52AI agent API exposure
- 17:19Manual spec pain points
- 19:25AI API design help
- 21:10Why API governance
- 24:50Spectral governance
- 27:48Extending governance scope
- 30:17Governance policies
- 32:44OPA runtime governance
- 33:26AI governance enforcement
- 35:17CI/CD governance
- 37:27AI in API lifecycle
- 39:33Key takeaways Q&A
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