Starting Simple in the Overwhelming World of API Governance
The world of API governance can be pretty overwhelming when it comes to trying to figure out where to get...
API Lifecycle Management
How to run an API program and manage the full API lifecycle governance across all the organization
The API Tooling Landscape
This article is about the API industry tooling landscape that every API product manager and tech manager should know or...
Core Strengthening API Governance
When I engage with folks around API governance it inevitably centers around design governance applied at design time—focusing as far...
What Developers Want
Vonage is a cloud communication company providing messaging, voice, and video APIs for developers to integrate into their apps. What...
There is no such thing as digital transformation (and why that matters)
What is transformation? Per the Cambridge dictionary definition of transformation, it's a complete change in the appearance or character of...
What Are the Rules of API Design Governance?
I am iterating upon some API design governance collections and an essential element of two of these collections are the linting rules....
A Mix of Blueprints for the API Lifecycle
I am been doing a lot of research into what the API lifecycle can be, pulling together what I’ve gathered...
Introducing WSO2 API Manager 4.1
We’re excited to announce that WSO2 API Manager 4.1—a complete platform for building, integrating, and exposing digital services as managed APIs...
APIOps – Automating API operations for speed and quality at scale
I've surveyed hundreds of people at events, and my data tells me that 80% of API teams are trading off...
Tech adoption in finance and banking: Clouds, APIs, DevOps, and Emerging technologies
In this article, I will show you some hard data on what technologies are being adopted in the finance and...
Confessions of a Product Geek – My First API
This article is about best practices and anti-patterns in API product ownership and product management. This article will touch on...
API Strategies for Banks and FinTechs in an Open Banking World
This article by Matthias Biehl from Software AG talks about API strategy for banks and FinTechs in an open banking world. The article will look at the past, present, and future of banking products to understand what strategies we should apply. In the past, banking as we know it was a bundling of separate banking products into a big mass-market banking product. What we experience at present with open banking and open finance is an unbundling of this mass-market banking and spans many different banking products. When we look into...
API Lifecycle: Moving from a Product as API to API as a Product
Francois Lasne is the Director of Open APIs Strategy at Finastra. In the article, Francois talks about moving from a...
APIs enable global collaborations and accelerate health
Dr. Denis Bauer is the head of computing bioinformatics at Australia's government research agency, CSIRO. Dennis is an internationally recognized...
The API Lifecycle for New or Active APIs
One of the limitations of the recent research I have been doing around the API lifecycle is that the lifecycle begins...
Composing a Headless and Composable Commerce Architecture
Yi Zhuang is part of Commercetools which has an API, microservices style, and headless commerce platform. She is passionate about...
APIs, open ecosystems and the emerging future
Mark Boyd is an analyst and founder of Platformable. Mark has been responsible for writing many reports on the open...
Streamlining API Product Delivery using Observability and DORA metrics
Senad Ameti and Christopher Nickolovski are DevOps Leaders at IAG (Insurance Australia Group). This article details their experiences in streamlining...
Targeting the Enterprise and Ignoring Developer’s Needs Around a Specific Stop Along the API LIfecycle
From time to time I see folks tweet how they are frustrated with Postman not doing exactly what they want...
Setting a Baseline API Lifecycle Definition
I find myself on this quest at regular intervals throughout the last decade-—seeking to define what the API lifecycle means. However, this time I am determined to ground myself in a vocabulary and set of visualizations that ground me and my storytelling around the API lifecycle, helping me be more coherent and precise when I talk about delivering APIs. Over the last decade, I have worked to define what I would consider over a hundred stops along a lifecycle, but in 2021 I am looking to distill that down into...