AsyncAPI is here to stay

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AsyncAPI enables an API-first design for event-driven systems by turning many endpoint contracts into one API for multiple consumers, demonstrated with a pawn-shop workflow using RabbitMQ (Kafka mentioned) and a Java POS producing an evaluated-good event consumed by Oracle-based risk, Java scoring, .NET accounting, Salesforce CRM and a React/Node dashboard. The AsyncAPI Playground shows the spec, auto-generates docs and sample messages, and the approach works: new consumers attach without changing the spec.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 6:00The impact of APIs
3. 11:00Diversity of messaging systems
4. 14:23API first approach
5. 17:05Documenting an eventdriven architecture
6. 20:12Reallife examples
7. 23:32API Playground
8. 28:50Summary

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