The New Stack for Platform Engineers - Securing and Observing APIs, Streams, and AI Workflows

Explore the evolving landscape of platform engineering as modern architectures transition from traditional request/response models to streaming data, event-driven systems, and agent-based automation in this 17-minute conference talk. Discover how APIs have expanded beyond RESTful endpoints to include Kafka topics, asynchronous streams, AI workflows powered by large language models, and autonomous agents that interact with APIs on behalf of users. Learn why traditional API gateways are insufficient for mixed-mode environments that combine REST, streaming, and agent-based interactions, and understand the new challenges platform teams face in securing, discovering, and observing these diverse API types. Gain insights into making Kafka and asynchronous streams as discoverable and secure as REST APIs, while exploring key considerations for enabling agentic workflows and LLM-driven integrations. Examine best practices and tools for unifying observability across all these components, whether you're building internal platforms or enabling external developers. Acquire a forward-looking framework for supporting the next generation of APIs and agentic AI systems in distributed architectures.