AsyncAPI Community Update - April 2026

AsyncAPI Community Update April 2026 Hey, 👋🏿 AsyncAPI community It's time for your monthly dose of updates! For a longer version, please read the March Community Update. 📢Announcements! The AsyncAPI Governance Board Elections for 2026 are coming up, and nominations for new members are now open until 12 pm UTC on the 26th April. For requirements, read the Board Nomination blog. We have a new release of AsyncAPI Studio that now supports file references. Thanks to the efforts and contributions made by Iván García Sainz-Aja. The Call for Speakers for Amsterdam is still open. Please submit your proposal by the 12th of April. When submitting, select AsyncAPI in the question about the FOST Partner Conferences. We added the AsyncAPI Meetups to the conference to expand our reach, and we’re looking for sponsors, partners, and community members to lead and organise a meetup in their local area, or to partner with others to share more knowledge about AsyncAPI and learn from a diverse audience. 🗞️Articles & News Managing Asynchronous APIs At Scale At QCon London 2026, Ian Cooper discussed managing asynchronous APIs in production and how endpoint definitions can drive code generation, schema registration, and automated messaging infrastructure. By Ian Cooper Beyond configuration drift: How Barbacane Reimagines the API Gateway What if your OpenAPI & AsyncAPI spec wasn't just documentation, but the actual configuration of your production gateway? Explore how Barbacane eliminates configuration drift with a spec-driven, compiled approach. By Nicolas Dreno AsyncAPI & WebSocket: A Match Made from Heaven? While building a collaborative drawing web application with WebSocket, Azeez discovered just how efficient it is to document a WebSocket server using the AsyncAPI specification in a spec-first approach. But what exactly does “spec-first” mean? By Azeez Elegbede 📝Discussions and Notes Election Time Repository Audit & Consolidation Code of Conduct Nomination - 2026 Donate Sonar AsyncAPI Core and Rules 🎥Previous Community Meetings Community WG Meeting, March 3rd 2026 AsyncAPI Website Triage Meeting, March 4th 2026 AsyncAPI Community WG Meeting, March 17th 2026 AsyncAPI Website Triage Meeting, March 18th 2026 Docs Meeting, March 25th 2026 Spec meeting, March 25th 2026 AsyncAPI Community WG Meeting, March 31st 2026 🤝Upcoming Events AsyncAPI Community WG Meeting, 15:00 UTC Tuesday, April 14th 2026 AsyncAPI Docs Meeting, 16:00 UTC Wednesday, April 29th 2026 Find out more 🤔Suggestions for the following newsletter? Share your suggestions or requests on the #16_newsletter on Slack. Finally, help us spread some love by liking, sharing, and subscribing to our content and socials💜 Copyright © 2026 AsyncAPI Initiative, All rights reserved.