Distributed API Management in a Cloud Native World

Chris Sterling is Director of Product Management at VMware focused on API management. He has held multiple high-level roles in his 25+ years in the software industry. Chris published the book Managing Software Debt: Building for Inevitable Change with Addison-Wesley in 2010 to provide a framework for teams and organizations to assess and manage debt in their software systems. Chris has successfully supported organizational transformation across multiple verticals with organizations of 10 up to 800 people. After a successful entrepreneurial endeavor as co-founder of Agile Advantage, Chris has brought his diverse experience and deep passion for technology when presenting on topics such as Continuous Delivery, Cloud Native architecture, DevOps, Lean, and Agile to the products he helps bring to market.

APIs—the key component of any company’s microservices model—are driving digital transformation in modern enterprises. Indeed, “66 percent of organizations report using private or B2B APIs,” according to the Gartner report, “Create API Portals That Drive API Adoption Among Internal and External Developer Communities” by Akash Jain and Mark O’Neill, November 2020.

However, this explosion of APIs also poses a growing challenge: How do developers discover, learn about, and manage so many APIs without becoming overwhelmed?

Please join us for an evening with Chris Sterling and API Management, session and Q&A.