API-First: Because Life's Too Short for Boilerplate - Artur Iablokov & Benedikt Dahm

The API-first approach has rapidly emerged as a leading development strategy, reshaping how companies design and manage applications. By leveraging benefits like reusability, self-service, and the network effect inherent in API-based models, this methodology fosters innovation and efficiency across industries. However, some companies and developer teams are unsure about fully adopting API-first. They worry it might be hard to connect systems or require more planning at the start. In this talk, we will take a closer look at these concerns to see if they are really as difficult as they seem. You'll be able to take away the key benefits of the API-first approach, especially for GoLang developers. Furthermore, we will discuss how tools such as oapi-codegen for OpenAPI and asyncapi-codegen for AsyncAPI can speed up development processes, improve workflows, and avoid common mistakes. About the speakers: Artur Iablokov is a software engineer at Lufthansa Industry Solutions, specializing in cloud-native development and architecture. With a solid track record across finance, energy, and logistics sectors, he spends most of his time building scalable microservices and crafting efficient APIs. Benedikt Dahm is a software engineer at Lufthansa Industry Solutions.