Fran Méndez

The list of chapters of my book, Shift.

I just released 15 new strategies (chapters) of my book, Shift: The Playbook for Event-Driven Architecture Advocacy.

This is your last chance to get early access to the book in Notion while I write it, at a discounted price: fmvilas.kit.com/products/shi....

Excited to be so close to the launch!

The list of chapters of my book, Shift.

I just released 15 new strategies (chapters) of my book, Shift: The Playbook for Event-Driven Architecture Advocacy.

This is your last chance to get early access to the book in Notion while I write it, at a discounted price: fmvilas.kit.com/products/shi....

Excited to be so close to the launch!

We're a strong community because we're a welcoming and lovely community. No doubt AsyncAPI will continue thriving.

Who's using plugins for blocking trackers, or browsers that block tools like Google Analytics by default? show yourself!

Stats for last month from visiting AsyncAPI Initiative website.
In the middle of the holiday season!!!

Google Analytics shows we had 57k pageviews and 11k unique users

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Monthly Community Update: July 2025 AsyncAPI community status and project updates for July 2025

The AsyncAPI community July update is out!

Welcome our first Governance Board members, and we anticipate exciting times as we enter this new chapter in our community journey.

The AsyncAPI conference of 2025 is on the move.
👇🏿

YouTube video by apidays Apidays Helsinki & north 2025 - AI will Decide your API’s Fate! By Frank Kilcommins.

Curious what AI means for API delivery?
Check out my #APIDays talk:
🎥 www.youtube.com/watch?v=DlNw...

Our latest AI-powered features:

OpenAPI / AsyncAPI gen
Spectral rules gen
API Functional + contract tests
Dev portal docs

Are we done hand-writing OpenAPI from scratch?
#APIs #AI #SmartBear

Start Of The First Governance Board Elections Time to present candidates to join AsyncAPI Governance Board and start elections.

Exciting times 🥰

www.asyncapi.com/blog/first-g...

Growing Our AsyncAPI Community and Finding Funds: A Step-by-Step Strategy for Open Source Projects If you're building an open source project with no budget and few contacts, start small: online events, free meetups, conference partnerships. This helped AsyncAPI grow a global community and find spon...

If you're building an #opensource project with no budget and few contacts, start small: online events, free meetups, conference partners. This helped #AsyncAPI grow a global community and find sponsors. Events aren’t just for visibility, they're for funding too

www.brainfart.dev/blog/foss-gr...

If you’re not angry, you’re not paying attention.

🎥: Time, 💬 Greta Thunberg

G E N O C I D I O
G E N O C I D I O
G E N O C I D I O

Conflicto no:

G E N O C I D I O

🔸If you like my work and want to support me, buying early access helps me stay on track with the writing process.

Learn more about Shift at fmvilas.me/shift.

Once the book is ready, you'll get the ebook format in your inbox, at no additional cost.

🤔 Why buying it now?

🔸It's cheaper!
🔸It gives you the opportunity to be among the first ones to read it.
🔸You will be able to influence the direction of the book.

🤔 What can you expect?

In the next 48 hours after your purchase, you will get an invitation to the Notion workspace that I'm using to write the book.

I will publish the chapters as soon as they're ready. You'll have the ability to comment and interact with me and other readers.

Shift: Early Reader

Get early access to read my book Shift: The Playbook for Event-Driven Architecture Advocacy.

fmvilas.kit.com/products/shi...

Haha! La verdad es que visualmente mola mucho y muchas veces no me acuerdo del título o autor del libro pero sí del color que era. Igual lo pruebo.

Tenemos que hablar de esa estantería del fondo. Están los libros colocados por colores?

Event-Driven Architecture: Pitfalls and Best Practices Event-Driven Architecture (EDA) promises loosely coupled services, asynchronous communication, and scalable systems. However, many teams struggle with hidden dependencies, fragile event chains, and debugging nightmares. This article explores real-world challenges, compares orchestration vs. choreography, and provides actionable solutions. 📖 Reference: Event-Driven Architecture Deep Dive You Should Know: 1. Where EDA Fails Hidden Dependencies: Services appear decoupled but rely on implicit event contracts.

Event-Driven Architecture: Pitfalls and Best Practices

Event-Driven Architecture (EDA) promises loosely coupled services, asynchronous communication, and scalable systems. However, many teams struggle with hidden dependencies, fragile event chains, and debugging nightmares. This article explores…

#Specmatic's Hari Krishnan is in New York presenting at #apidays on Wednesday. Are you attending? Be sure to check out Hari's two sessions. He would love to connect with you, so do say hi!

Bonus! Hari still has some free passes to give away! (Link in comments)

#GraphQL
#OpenAPI
#AsyncAPI

Just learned about WebTransport. It's exciting!

developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/W...

I used to think I didn't like books. I used to think I didn't like writing. I realized the problem wasn't where I thought it was. Now? I'm even writing a book and enjoying it immensely 🙂

That's it. That's the post. I hope it helps someone.

🔸 Not watching TV in the evening. I'm particularly proud of this. Now we're only turning on the TV about an hour per day. And it's mostly (if not all) my daughter watching cartoons.

👇

🔸No stress in my life anymore. Quitting my job last year has been crucial.
🔸 I'm reading at least 10 pages every night Monday-Thursday and Sunday. Either before going to bed or already in the bed. That is a decision my daughter takes, not me 😅

👇

Since the beginning of the year, I've read 5 books. That's an average of 1 book/month.

I was looking back in time and that's roughly the same amount of books I've read from 2020 to 2024. 5 full years. ~1 book/year.

The secret? Well, a few:

👇

Damn, I forgot about this 😄 It got solved eventually. Gracias José Manuel!

Join Natan Silnitsky, Backend Infrastructure Tech Lead at Wix for his talk on "Redefining Event-Driven Architecture at Wix - Integration Ignited" This will be a must-watch! 2025.eventcentric.eu/program/rede...

Stripe added the ability to copy their docs pages (markdown) to clipboards to help people when they use LLMs etc.

This has now been added to EventCatalog, you can copy any page to clipboard, schema (Avro, Json, Protobuf, AsyncAPI, OpenAPI) to clipboards.

Hope it helps 🙏

I like the intent but isn't JSON Type Definition already there? It's already an RFC and got lots of implementations in different languages.

For definition, I'd use something like Avro or JSON Type Definition (definitely not JSON Schema). For validation, I'd use JSON Schema.

However, that would create more complexity. Not an easy task.

FWIW, you can use JSON Type Definition with AsyncAPI. It's true though that we default to JSON Schema Draft 07. If it was about me, AsyncAPI would have two fields for data structures: definition and validation.

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Just getting this weird rate-limit error in Freepik. Anyone else seeing it? I haven't used it in a week or so and I got rate-limited straight away 🫠 cc @jmlweb.bsky.social

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