Apigee migration: Changing the engine while the plane is flying
This session will examine the bold and high-stakes migration of a major banking platform from Apigee OPDK to Apigee Hybrid, executed without involving customers or causing disruption. It offers insight into the strategy, tooling, and automation required to modernize legacy infrastructure at scale.
When one of the bank’s largest platform migrations in recent history was initiated, Marat Khandros and the platform engineering team faced a daunting challenge: move from legacy Apigee OPDK to Apigee Hybrid without any customer involvement or service impact. This talk explores how months of detailed planning, strategic workstream division, and real-time problem solving made that possible. Khandros will walk through the migration journey, including how API consumer data (credentials and application-specific attributes) was preserved, how user access was transitioned with complex Active Directory permissioning, and how producer configurations were retained. He will also share how automation reduced migration time per API from nearly 30 minutes to under a minute, and how observability and automated rollback systems ensured safety and transparency. Attendees will leave with a practical perspective on executing large-scale migrations while maintaining operational continuity.
Apigee migration: Changing the engine while the plane is flying
This session will examine the bold and high-stakes migration of a major banking platform from Apigee OPDK to Apigee Hybrid, executed without involving customers or causing disruption. It offers insight into the strategy, tooling, and automation required to modernize legacy infrastructure at scale.
Panelist

Richard Linley
Senior Fullstack Developer, Royal Bank of Canada
Panelist

Chris Ko
Director of API Developer Enablement, Royal Bank of Canada
Panelist

Moderator

Marat Khandros
Head of Digital Platform Engineering, RBC
When one of the bank’s largest platform migrations in recent history was initiated, Marat Khandros and the platform engineering team faced a daunting challenge: move from legacy Apigee OPDK to Apigee Hybrid without any customer involvement or service impact. This talk explores how months of detailed planning, strategic workstream division, and real-time problem solving made that possible. Khandros will walk through the migration journey, including how API consumer data (credentials and application-specific attributes) was preserved, how user access was transitioned with complex Active Directory permissioning, and how producer configurations were retained. He will also share how automation reduced migration time per API from nearly 30 minutes to under a minute, and how observability and automated rollback systems ensured safety and transparency. Attendees will leave with a practical perspective on executing large-scale migrations while maintaining operational continuity.
Apigee migration: Changing the engine while the plane is flying
This session will examine the bold and high-stakes migration of a major banking platform from Apigee OPDK to Apigee Hybrid, executed without involving customers or causing disruption. It offers insight into the strategy, tooling, and automation required to modernize legacy infrastructure at scale.
When one of the bank’s largest platform migrations in recent history was initiated, Marat Khandros and the platform engineering team faced a daunting challenge: move from legacy Apigee OPDK to Apigee Hybrid without any customer involvement or service impact. This talk explores how months of detailed planning, strategic workstream division, and real-time problem solving made that possible. Khandros will walk through the migration journey, including how API consumer data (credentials and application-specific attributes) was preserved, how user access was transitioned with complex Active Directory permissioning, and how producer configurations were retained. He will also share how automation reduced migration time per API from nearly 30 minutes to under a minute, and how observability and automated rollback systems ensured safety and transparency. Attendees will leave with a practical perspective on executing large-scale migrations while maintaining operational continuity.
Apigee migration: Changing the engine while the plane is flying
This session will examine the bold and high-stakes migration of a major banking platform from Apigee OPDK to Apigee Hybrid, executed without involving customers or causing disruption. It offers insight into the strategy, tooling, and automation required to modernize legacy infrastructure at scale.
Panelist

Richard Linley
Senior Fullstack Developer, Royal Bank of Canada
Panelist

Chris Ko
Director of API Developer Enablement, Royal Bank of Canada
Panelist

Host

Marat Khandros
Head of Digital Platform Engineering, RBC
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