Chapter 11: API Management and Governance

It was inevitable that we would eventually have to get to that oh-so dreaded word governance. You might cringe a little thinking about all the red tape and processes that seem to just slow our productivity and time to market. Although governance is important to all software development, it is even more so when we are implementing our API strategy. In the past, developing software had its process to follow from the design phase to code and unit testing, to QA testing, and finally production. Once it hit production, as long as it worked no one seemed to really know or care what process was followed to get there. As long as it worked. We are in a very different world now with our API strategy and digital transformation. Just having software that works is not enough. If your APIs are not easily searchable, discoverable, and consumable, it doesn't really matter that they work. Imagine shopping on Amazon but nothing is categorized and when you...