Webinars

How to accidentally lose $2m to API breaking changes (or how to prevent it)

October 22, 2024

7:00 pm

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1:00 PM

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45 min

Bi-weekly

In 2019, Anthony Alaribe led a legacy service rewrite at Delivery Hero which turned out poorly, due to a single missing field that no one knew about. That mistake caused an almost $2 million loss for the company. This talk will explore that journey, including Anthony’s retrospective, and how he devised an algorithm to automatically catch future breaking changes or missing fields across arbitrary APIs to ensure that kind of issue never happens again.

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This webinar will be a dive into relevant cryptography primitives, which make it possible to perform such analysis at scale. It will discuss:

The challenge of legacy service migrations
Flattening real-time API streams into a form that can be analyzed
Merkle trees and how they can be applied to catching breaking changes

Audience - who should join?

Platform engineers, platform architects, DevOps engineers, site reliability engineers (SREs), infrastructure and operations, security engineers, enterprise and solution architects, application developers with an affinity for platform engineering and technical management focusing on improving DevEx and ops efficiency.

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Anthony Alaribe

Co-founder at APItoolkit

Anthony has spent over a decade building high-throughput software at companies like Opera, and DeliveryHero. He has faced his fair share of dealing with system unreliability and large scale incidents at these companies.

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