Map Your API Landscape Before Writing Governance Rules
By
Kin Lane
Summary
The article argues that effective API governance begins not with imposing rules or style guides, but with first mapping and understanding the existing API landscape. The author shares personal experience from a governance role, emphasizing that reviewing every published OpenAPI across the portfolio is the essential first step before writing any rules. The piece warns against the common mistake of adopting external standards without understanding what already exists, which leads to immediate conflict and failure.
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bskyMap Your API Landscape Before Writing Governance Rulesapievangelist.comKey quotes
· 3 pulledBefore you can govern anything, you have to see what you actually have, and almost nobody does this first.
They show up with a style guide they got from a conference talk or a vendor, declare it the standard, and then discover that eighty percent of the existing APIs violate it on day one.
Now the governance function is the person who walks in and tells everyone they're wrong. That is a terrible p
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