AsyncAPI – Swagger for asynchronous APIs

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AsyncAPI is presented as a specification analogous to Swagger but for asynchronous, event-driven systems. It covers using AsyncAPI to describe interactions over technologies such as Kafka and WebSockets, and shows how the standard helps document event, queue, and message-based architectures.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 2:29Async integration problems
3. 4:14Spec history and evolution
4. 6:23AsyncAPI vs OpenAPI
5. 7:53AsyncAPI tools
6. 9:22API-first approach
7. 11:49AsyncAPI adoption challenges
8. 14:19Documentation structure
9. 16:02Unified documentation UI
10. 17:50Spec tools
11. 18:55Code and schema generation
12. 21:42Gradle automation
13. 25:37Results and conclusions
14. 27:02Q&A

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