DOP 318: WireMock and the Changing Landscape of API Development Tools

Posted on Wednesday, Oct 1, 2025

Show Notes

#318: In this episode, we explore how AI is fundamentally reshaping the world of API development and testing with Tom Akehurst, CTO & Co-founder at WireMock. As AI agents become more prevalent in software development, the tools and practices around API design, testing, and maintenance are evolving rapidly. Tom shares insights on how WireMock is adapting to this new landscape and what it means for developers and organizations building distributed systems.

Guests

Tom Akehurst

Tom Akehurst

Tom has been a professional software developer for over 20 years. He’s built large-scale web systems for media, travel, hospitality, retail and government, applying lean, eXtreme Programming, Continuous Delivery and DevOps principles along the way.

Tom has always been interested in (or obsessed by, perhaps) networked system testing and automation, and as such he’s the creator of WireMock - the open source API mocking tool, which he’s now been working on for well over a decade.

Lately he’s also the CTO and co-founder of WireMock, Inc., where he’s helping complex engineering organisations effectively adopt API simulation techniques in order to build better software faster.

Hosts

Darin Pope

Darin Pope

Viktor Farcic

Viktor Farcic

Viktor Farcic is a member of the Google Developer Experts and Docker Captains groups, and published author.

His big passions are DevOps, Containers, Kubernetes, Microservices, Continuous Integration, Delivery and Deployment (CI/CD) and Test-Driven Development (TDD).

He often speaks at community gatherings and conferences.

He has published DevOps Paradox and Test-Driven Java Development.

His random thoughts and tutorials can be found in his blog The DevOps Toolkit.

Links

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