STARWEST 2026 - API Testing

Event-driven architectures promise speed and scale, but they also introduce testing pain: eventual consistency, non-deterministic timing, duplicated events, and failures that only appear in production. In this talk, Parthiban will share a practical, field-tested approach he has used while leading distributed teams building regulated FinTech workloads on AWS serverless components such as Lambda, EventBridge, Step Functions, SQS, and API Gateway. He’ll start with the common failure patterns that make traditional end-to-end testing brittle, slow, and expensive. Next, he will walk through how...