10x DevEx: Shift-Left API Governance = CycleTime/2
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Claims a 50% cut in cycle time and a 10x DevEx boost by putting shift-left API governance into practice: start with machine‑readable specs (OpenAPI/grpc), store them in a central Git repo, auto-generate stubs and contract tests, run Proto-validate and Specmatic-generated tests in CI, and use an OpenAI-driven agent to auto-fix generator errors. Results shown: cycle time drops from 129 to ~32 days, flow efficiency rises from 42% to 82%, contract-related bugs (27% initially) fall ~25%. The open‑source tooling and agentic workflow prove the approach at scale.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Intro
- 1:40gRPC
- 3:19Demo
- 23:42Tools, practices & culture that leads to great DevEx
- 26:14Contract driven development
- 35:15Specmatic's journey
- 42:16Discovered issues
- 45:50Outro
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