Fran Méndez, founder of AsyncAPI, and Jonathan Schabowsky, senior architect at Solace, explain how the two companies are working together in this presentation from Gartner AADI.

1. That’s Possible
Introducing AsyncAPI:
Enabler of event-driven apps, APIs
and architectures
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@fmvilas
Fran Méndez
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@Jschabowsky
Jonathan Schabowsky

2. Platinum Sponsors

3. Fran Méndez
A little bit about me
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@fmvilas
Email
fmvilas@gmail.com
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Founder of AsyncAPI Initiative
Former APIs & Integrations Engineer at New Relic

4. Fran Méndez
A little bit about me
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@fmvilas
Email
fmvilas@gmail.com
Founder of AsyncAPI Initiative
Former APIs & Integrations Engineer at New Relic

5. Event
Broker
Possible App Interactions = 16

6. Event
Broker
Possible Interactions = 64

7. Event
Broker
Possible Interactions = 😅

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9. BINGO
TIME!

12. The
specification
With it you can describe:
Event-driven microservices
IoT APIs and Sensors
…and actually pretty much any system that
is based on messages an/or events.
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Streaming APIs

13. Tooling
Open source tools
Documentation generators
(HTML, Markdown, React, …)
Code generators
(JS, Go, Java, Python, Spring …)
Online editor
editor.asyncapi.org
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14. It does NOT enforce
any particular protocol
However, it cares about the protocol because its
important information for clients and code
generators.
AMQP
MQTT
WebSockets
HTTP
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And any protocol you want to use…
Kafka

15. AsyncAPI enforces a common language
for everyone.
Language
It’s a basic pilar of communication
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By defining a common language
everybody can easily create interoperable
tools, services and products.

16. Event Lifecycle
Take control of your Eventing lifecycle.
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Design
Documentation
Code Generation
Testing
Event management
Monitoring

17. Event Lifecycle
Take control of your Eventing lifecycle.
Photo by Boris Smokrovic
Design
Documentation
Code Generation
Testing
Event management
Monitoring

18. www.asyncapi.com

19. That’s Possible
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20. Why WE need Event
Management
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We need answers to…
• Where do you discover events/topics and the schema definition that
defines the payload?
• What logical event address (topic) do you subscribe to in order to
receive just the events you want to do something with?
• Why does a given event exist, i.e. what is it’s context and purpose. And
if you can’t figure that out…
• Who do you contact to learn more about more events and their
context/purpose?
• When will a given event be available or deprecated?
• How do developers/Architects define their event-driven application
interfaces, How do they generate code?

21. API Management Platforms Solved This for REST!
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© Solace
Proprietary & Confidential
Answers the Who, What, When, Where, Why and How
For RESTful APIs… But what about Events?
API
Portal
API
Gateway
Documentation:
• Discover
Registration:
• Govern
Analysis:
• Improve
• Monetize
Community:
• Collaborate
Internal, Partner &
Third-Party
Architects and
Developers

22. OpenAPI vs AsyncAPI: Enable Developers
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© Solace
Proprietary & Confidential
OpenAPI
Specificatio
n
Swagger
Codegen
Generated
Code
Async
Specificatio
n
AsyncAPI
Codegen
SynchronousAsynchronous
…
HTTP
amqp,
amqps,
mqtt, mqtts,
ws, wss
Generated
Code
Runtime
Protocol
Runtime
Protocol

23. An Event Platform for Async Interactions
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© Solace
Proprietary & Confidential
Event
Broker
Security
Persistence
Protocol Translation
1..Many Distribution
Event Source
Event Sinks
Event
Portal
Documentation:
• Discover
Registration:
• Govern
Analysis:
• Improve
• Monetize
Community:
• Collaborate
Internal, Partner &
Third-Party
Architects and
Developers
Runtime Event Mesh
Event Driven App
Design, Develop
&
Management

24. Thank you.
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@Jschabowsky
Email
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@fmvilas
Email
Jonathan.Schabowsky@solace.com www.solace.com
www.asyncapi.comfmvilas@gmail.com