API Lifecycle Management

As a former developer, I've spent countless hours crafting APIs and services, driven by a passion to deliver value and better services to businesses. However, with time and experience, I realized that the haste to develop more APIs often led to unintended consequences. One critical aspect that often gets overlooked is the sustainability and maintainability of these APIs. Who will maintain them? How can we ensure they are sustainable in the long run? This reflection brings us to the concept of Enterprise Architecture Debt (EAD), especially within the API realm....