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Recently at the GOTO Conferences in Copenhagen, Hari Krishnan, Joel Rosario and I presented our experience of helping organisations 10x their Developer Experience (#DevEx) by implementing effective API Design and Governance using #ContractDrivenDevelopment. We called it 10x DevEx. You might wonder, why 10x? We believe that if you don't improve things by an order of magnitude no one will care. Our discussion centred around leveraging #APISpecifications as #ExecutableContracts to address common challenges in distributed systems. We demonstrated how even an agentic #GenAI workflow can leverage Specmatic as guardrails to provide feedback and self-correct the API service code generation. Drastically improving the robustness and reliability of the code generation. We took a case study from one of our clients and demonstrated how we helped them streamline their entire API lifecycle, how we mitigated typical integration pitfalls and enhanced the alignment between development teams and their objectives. Net results: * #CycleTime reduced from 129 days to 32 days (75% improvement). * #FlowEfficiency improved from 42% to 82% (95% improvement) * #Bugs dropped from 2988 to 697 per quarter (77% reduction) * #WIP (Work In-Progress features + bugs) reduced from 4471 to 619 (86% reduction) Creating a more #aligned and #collaborative engineering culture. Based on our experience, we also shared what are the key aspects that drive a better DevEx. Showing how Contract-driven Development in action can address all those aspects. A key takeaway for attendees was the importance of maintaining robust, reliable API contracts that promote collaboration and ensure consistency across platforms. We provided actionable insights on navigating the intricacies of #gRPC, #OpenAPI, contract testing and service mocking, as detailed in our recent discussions and blog posts. 🎥 The slides from our presentation are available here: https://bit.ly/10xDevEx. Stay tuned for the video release soon! Does our approach resonate with your experiences? We’d love to hear your thoughts and insights in the comments below. #OpenAPI #ASyncAPI #GRPC #FlowMetrics #GenAI #AgenticWorkflow #ContractTesting #APIManagement