The vertical API approach
The code owned by the companies is usually developed by different teams. These teams can be either internal (employees of a company), external (contractors), or a combination of both. When is time to develop an API, the team assigned to doing so is commonly responsible, among the implementation itself, for the following aspects:
- Design decisions
- Security and authentication
- Documentation
- Change management
- Testing
- Monitoring
- Discoverability
All in all, we can state that different APIs are not just developed by different brains; they are also envisioned, implemented, and tested by different teams (we are going to refer to this process as a vertical API approach).
This kind of tight coupling between APIs and specific teams only works if the company needs to develop fewer APIs. Nowadays, organizations are facing disruption. The API landscape in a generic organization is clearly reaching a tipping point, and the vertical...
