CWT's API-First Journey: Transforming Travel Management Tech

Revisit one of our sessions from API Summit 2024!

Join Peter Lee, VP of Software Engineering at CWT, as he shares the compelling story of the company's digital transformation journey towards becoming an API-first travel management company. Dive into the technical details of how CWT modernizes its travel counselors' tools by leveraging microservices, containers, and the API Gateway. Gain insights into the challenges faced during the transformation process and the key criteria that led to the selection of Kong as their API platform of choice. Learn how CWT successfully integrated Kong into their existing technology stack and the significant improvements achieved through this implementation. Explore CWT's future plans to monetize their APIs and the architectural strategies they will employ to realize this vision.