Building, specifying, and testing APIs with microservices

Jim Gough (Morgan Stanley), Matthew Auburn (Morgan Stanley), Padmavati Sridhar (Morgan Stanley)

1:30pm–5:00pm Monday, February 24, 2020

Location: Beekman Parlor

Fundamentals

Secondary topics: Best Practice, Case Study, Hands-on

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Who is this presentation for?

Developers and architects

Level

Beginner

Description

James Gough, Padma Sridhar, and Matthew Auburn walk you through the creation of a very simple task list API.

Outline:

Create microservices using Spring Boot, which exposes an API (and prove that’s not the hard part, with options offered for non-Java developers)
Use either Pact or Spring Cloud Contract to test and progress the API with new features
Discover how to use OpenAPI to specify an API and the balance between developing APIs with specification first or contract driven
Use a specification to allow your API to be versioned and use semantic versioning to ensure that components in your architecture remain decoupled and free to move without breaking consumers
Explore the reasons for an API gateway, why they’re architecturally important, and the concepts of a service mesh in the context of developing an API program

Materials or downloads needed in advance

A WiFi-enabled laptop (prerequisites here)

What you'll learn

Understand that building an API is very simple and that testing and ensuring API compatibility is key to loosely coupled services
Learn the importance of OpenAPI Specifications and whether they're incidental or crafted
Discover how to use semantic versioning to ensure compatibility of services
Gain an introduction to gateways and microservices

Jim Gough

Morgan Stanley

James (Jim) Gough is an executive director and developer at Morgan Stanley, where he’s focused on building customer-facing technology. A Java developer and author, Jim first became interested in Java during his degree program at the University of Warwick; after graduating, he became a member of the London Java Community. Community has remained central to Jim’s contributions, which include working on the design and testing of JSR-310 and serving on the Java Community Process Executive Committee for several years. Jim’s a regular conference speaker and spent four years teaching Java and C++ around the world.

Matthew Auburn

Morgan Stanley

Matt Auburn is a passionate software developer at Morgan Stanley, where he works as an API developer. Matt owns the DevOps and Security API components. He’s a Java developer at heart, but he also writes automated tests in Python and has an interest in Go. He enjoys learning new technologies, mentoring, and teaching developers.

Padmavati Sridhar

Morgan Stanley

Padmavati (Padma) Sridhar is a vice president at Morgan Stanley, where she leads a team in developing client-facing web technology for hedge fund clients. She focuses on delivering secure, user-friendly, and holistic solutions for clients across different business units. She’s streamlined several manual workflows with automated technology solutions that provide clients transparency into their day-to-day business operations. She’s passionate about solving challenging problems and mentoring developers to grow in business-facing roles. In her spare time, she enjoys leading a Toastmasters chapter at the firm that helps participants build public-speaking skills.