6 天之前 · API governance is the framework and set of practices that ensures your APIs are high quality, consistent and compliant, and aligned to business goals. Governance incorporates API coding best practices and design style guides, security and API gateway policy enforcement, and business-level metadata to aid API discovery and consumption.

API governance is the practice of defining policies and processes that foster effective collaboration, promote API consistency, and enable organizations to get the most value out of their API portfolio.

API governance sets the framework and strategy that informs API management. The goal of API governance is to produce discoverable, secure, scalable and reusable APIs. In short, effective API governance yields higher quality, more valuable APIs and a better user experience.

For companies actively deploying API-driven business strategies, governance is a necessity. Governance is especially beneficial for organizations that have an API design program or microservices architectures. This article highlights why API governance is important and covers a few API governance best practices.

In this white paper, we'll provide you with a simple set of blueprints, considerations, and pragmatic first steps that will help you create a living API governance strategy. We'll emphasize the importance of enabling teams as you develop your organization's API governance model—and of striking the right balance between enablement and enforcement.

2020年5月13日 · API product governance is about managing the lifecycle of individual APIs, ensuring they are meeting their business objectives, and measuring the API product against its defined business model. Here are some of the questions you should ask and address through API product governance:

2020年8月28日 · What’s an API governance model and what does it involve? We’re using API governance model as a catch-all term; it’s in fact more than APIs and more than just governance – it’s a whole maturity model for your enterprise to use in determining how reliable, reusable, and compliant APIs and Services are.

2021年3月10日 · The result of API governance is creating policies, rules, and conventions that allow the parties involved to work independently of one another but effectively towards the same goal. API governance produces policies concerned with: versioning; tracking; documenting; deprecating; integrating; These all sound like important aspects when talking ...

2023年7月4日 · Choosing an API governance model can be challenging, however. There are a variety of options available. How are you supposed to know which one is best for your organization? Let’s look at what a healthy API governance program includes, then examine the different models of API governance to see which one may be the right fit for your organization.

A carefully designed API governance model streamlines development, enhances team collaboration, and reduces security risks. Clear policies prevent inconsistencies that lead to system failures, downtime, or regulatory penalties. Establishing governance standards early supports long-term stability, improves developer efficiency, and simplifies ...