API Development in the AI Era

​Join Akshata Sawant (Dev. Advocate @Salesforce), Sean Keegan (Dev. Advocate @Lunar.dev), and Valentin Despa (Software Developer & Educator) as we uncover AI's impact on API development. Discuss challenges and opportunities, explore the balance between inbound and outbound API management, and delve into the nuances of REST, GraphQL, and gRPC. Join us as we reimagine the future of API development!

​We will discuss:

• ​The challenges and the opportunities that AI brings to the API development process

• ​The right balance between inbound and outbound API management

• ​Code generation tools and unified API platforms

• ​SDK vs. APIs experience in the world of data

• ​Choosing the best architecture for data-driven APIs - REST vs. GraphQL vs. gRPC

• ​The potential for a new protocol for API modeling for unstructured/vector data

• ​Strategies for dealing with caching in APIs

• ​Decentralized vs. Centralized API management