dale lane

I gave a presentation about What are we missing in AsyncAPI? in the AsyncAPI track at apidays in London last week. My aim for the talk was to start a discussion on where there are opportunities to enhance and extend AsyncAPI.

The talk wasn’t recorded, so I’ll use this post to describe what I talked about.

I use AsyncAPI to document and describe Kafka applications. That was the (admittedly narrow!) perspective I brought. I suspect that a lot of the specific examples I raised have equivalents in other protocols. Even where they don’t, I was trying to make a protocol-agnostic point that we need to think about the different types of people who work in event driven systems and what information they need for their roles.

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