Rethinking API Governance: From Design-Time Enforcement to Consumer-Centric Strategy
By
Kin Lane
Summary
The author discusses their evolving talk on consumer API governance, which they've presented at APIDays NYC and Amsterdam and will present again in Munich. They argue against the prevailing industry mindset (reinforced by a decade of vendor messaging) that API governance is solely a design-time and development-phase activity focused on producing APIs. Instead, they advocate for a broader, consumer-centric approach to API governance that extends beyond the build phase.
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bskyRethinking API Governance: From Design-Time Enforcement to Consumer-Centric Strategyapievangelist.comKey quotes
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It is also up against a decade of vendor headwind that has trained everyone to believe API governance is something you do at design time and then enforce during development and build, while you are producing APIs.
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