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Fireside Chat: Neha Narkhede, CTO of Confluent, Apache Kafka & Marco Palladino CTO, Kong

Neha Narkhede, who co-created Apache Kafka, co-founded Confluent and is now its CTO, and Marco Palladino sit down for a far-ranging conversation about the history of Kafka. They also discuss trends driving the software industry, strategies for open core businesses, and the challenges of being a CTO. The conversation closes with both CTOs’ advice for engineers aspiring to found companies or become Chief Technology Officers.

Building Dynamic Virtual Services in Minutes with Swagger and OAS

The OpenAPI Specification (formerly known as the Swagger Specification) provides an elegant way to design and document your APIs. During and after design and documentation, mocking helps you create prototypes and achieve coverage for all your scenarios during testing and development. The problem is that mocking is hard to do and static. It involves a lot of work and makes it difficult to simulate different scenarios you want to test and develop against.

10 API Testing Tips for Beginners (SOAP & REST)

API (application programming interface) testing is a type of software testing that performs verification directly at the API level. It is a part of integration testing that determines whether the APIs meet the testers’ expectations of functionality, reliability, performance, and security. Unlike UI testing, API testing is performed at the message layer without GUI.