{"id":8491,"date":"2023-02-02T04:02:21","date_gmt":"2023-02-02T04:02:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dmsretail.com\/RetailNews\/take-a-deep-dive-into-api-quality-at-cisco-live-in-amsterdam\/"},"modified":"2023-02-02T04:02:21","modified_gmt":"2023-02-02T04:02:21","slug":"take-a-deep-dive-into-api-quality-at-cisco-live-in-amsterdam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dmsretail.com\/RetailNews\/take-a-deep-dive-into-api-quality-at-cisco-live-in-amsterdam\/","title":{"rendered":"Take a Deep Dive into API Quality at Cisco Live in Amsterdam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <p><a href=\"https:\/\/dmsretail.com\/online-workshops-list\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-496\" src=\"https:\/\/dmsretail.com\/RetailNews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/RETAIL-ONLINE-TRAINING-728-X-90.png\" alt=\"Retail Online Training\" width=\"729\" height=\"91\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dmsretail.com\/RetailNews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/RETAIL-ONLINE-TRAINING-728-X-90.png 729w, https:\/\/dmsretail.com\/RetailNews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/RETAIL-ONLINE-TRAINING-728-X-90-300x37.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 729px) 100vw, 729px\" \/><\/a><\/p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Over the past few months, you may have noticed several announcements that demonstrate how Cisco\u2019s commitment to delivering great developer experiences. From backwards compatibility for APIs to standardizing on the OpenAPI specification, these are just two ways we are driving this effort.<\/p>\n<p>Here is some background on Cisco\u2019s API First and Quality efforts:<\/p>\n<h2>API-First and API Quality at Cisco<\/h2>\n<p>As we began sharing our journey to API-First and API Quality with OpenAPI at Cisco Live Las Vegas last June, we saw a lot of interest from the DevNet community that uses Cisco APIs to automate, scale, and secure their infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, at recent API industry events \u2013 ASC\/OpenAPI Conference, API World and API Days \u2013 we met with technical leads, devops engineers, and compliance officers who face similar challenges: how to deliver high quality APIs? how to measure the quality of API contracts? and how to gain visibility into new API releases?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" srcset=\"https:\/\/storage.googleapis.com\/blogs-images\/ciscoblogs\/1\/2023\/02\/steve-api-300x173.png 300w, https:\/\/storage.googleapis.com\/blogs-images\/ciscoblogs\/1\/2023\/02\/steve-api-768x443.png 768w, https:\/\/storage.googleapis.com\/blogs-images\/ciscoblogs\/1\/2023\/02\/steve-api-1024x591.png 1024w, https:\/\/storage.googleapis.com\/blogs-images\/ciscoblogs\/1\/2023\/02\/steve-api.png 1276w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1276px) 100vw, 1276px\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-426645\" src=\"https:\/\/storage.googleapis.com\/blogs-images\/ciscoblogs\/1\/2023\/02\/steve-api.png\" alt=\"steve api\" width=\"800\" height=\"461\"\/><\/p>\n<h2>Why API Contracts Matte<\/h2>\n<p>I am thrilled to be back in Amsterdam next week. Please see below for the many opportunities to network with other API practitioners.<\/p>\n<p>Starting Monday morning, February 6th, Cisco Meraki, Nexus and ISE engineering groups will participate in a panel to share best practices and lessons learned from their API-First journeys.<\/p>\n<p>And, throughout along the week, join us in the DevNet Zone for a preview of the next release of API Insights, the homegrown opensource toolset supporting Cisco\u2019s journey to standardized APIs.<\/p>\n<h2>What can you expect at Cisco Live Amsterdam?<\/h2>\n<p>Here are some of the opportunities to learn more about recent and new announcements, but also to get a deep dive into the process and tools used at Cisco on this API Quality journey.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>API Insights Demo \u2013 All week in the DevNet Zone, Meet the Developer Area<br \/><\/strong>Join our colleagues and me in the DevNet Zone for demos of the next release of API Insights, which allows you to track the quality of API contracts and score OpenAPI documents.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Why API Contracts matter \u2013 DEVNET-1400<\/strong>, <em>Monday Feb 6, 10:00 AM \u2013 10:45 AM CET<\/em><br \/>Join this panel to get a deeper dive into Cisco\u2019s API First and backward compatibility recent announcements and hear from Cisco engineering groups about their journey and the actual benefits from a developer experience and security perspective.<\/li>\n<li><strong>API Design-First \u2013 Not Just Another Pretty Interface\u00a0\u2013 DEVNET-1092<\/strong>, <em>Wednesday, June 15, 4:00 PM \u2013 4:45 PM PDT<\/em><br \/>Join David Staudt, DevNet Developer Advocate and Principal Engineer at Cisco, as he introduces the concepts of \u2018API design first\u2019, and demonstrates the use of some open-source tools to create a RESTful API, automatically generate interactive documentation and easily spin-off clean, language-specific SDKs.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Living on the Edge: From Developers to Ops\u00a0\u2013 INTDEV-1590<\/strong>,\u00a0<em>Wednesday, Thursday, Feb 9, 12:00 PM \u2013 12:30 PM CET<br \/><\/em>Join this session with Ray Stephenson, Senior Director of Cisco Developer Relations Strategy and Experience, to discover how organizations can harness developer-led innovations to gain new insights, increase operational efficiency, and realize the transformative potential in systems, services, and software.<\/li>\n<li><strong>The 12 facets of the OpenAPI Standard \u2013 BRKDEV-2249, <\/strong><em>Friday Feb 10, 9:15 AM \u2013 10:15 AM CET<br \/><\/em>Join St\u00e8ve Sfartz, Principal Architect and API Experience Program Lead, as he introduces the OpenAPI Specifications (OAS) and how Cisco products leverage the industry standard to drive API quality and state-of-the-art developer experience. We\u2019ll discuss OpenAPI best practices, tools, and processes available to the developer community.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Related resources<\/h2>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Share:<\/p>\n<p>\n  \t<\/div>\n<p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/dmsretail.com\/online-workshops-list\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-496\" src=\"https:\/\/dmsretail.com\/RetailNews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/RETAIL-ONLINE-TRAINING-728-X-90.png\" alt=\"Retail Online Training\" width=\"729\" height=\"91\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dmsretail.com\/RetailNews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/RETAIL-ONLINE-TRAINING-728-X-90.png 729w, https:\/\/dmsretail.com\/RetailNews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/RETAIL-ONLINE-TRAINING-728-X-90-300x37.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 729px) 100vw, 729px\" \/><\/a><\/p><br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the past few months, you may have noticed several announcements that demonstrate how Cisco\u2019s commitment to delivering great developer experiences. 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