Unique identifier, name, description, tags, and other metadata for the API that defines the purpose of each individual API, and how it benefits API producer and consumers, establishing the base of the agreement.
Metadata for APIs
Strategies
APIs Are Discoverable Through a Central Catalog
All APIs must be registered in a central catalog or registry with consistent metadata, tags, and descriptions, ensuring that producers and consumers can find existing APIs before building new ones,...
APIs Possess Informative Metadata
All APIs possess metadata that is relevant to what APIs do, but also how they can be used in business by API consumers, and metadata helps ensure that the front door for API operations within this ...
Experiences
Alignment
Achieving alignment between teams producing APIs and their consumers is a persistent challenge in API operations. Effective collaboration between business and technical stakeholders requires ongoin...
APIs
APIs are the experience at the center of everything else here, the technical reality that all the strategy, policy, and human experience ultimately revolves around. Working with APIs as products me...
Communication
Consistent communication about the production and consumption of APIs is critical for effective enterprise governance. APIs are inherently difficult to visualize, making it essential to invest in m...
Discovery
The average enterprise maintains approximately 0.5 APIs per employee, making it a constant challenge to track the growing inventory of HTTP APIs being produced and consumed. Enterprises often addre...
Onboarding
Transitioning from API discovery to integration as a consumer requires a well-defined and streamlined API onboarding process. Onboarding begins with discovery and relies heavily on clear documentat...
Lifecycle
description Definitions Define
The definition is the contract. OpenAPI, AsyncAPI, JSON Schema, and APIs.json are the machine-readable artifacts I use to describe what an API is before, during, and after it exists. Investing in s...
travel_explore Discovery Production
Discovery is how APIs get found and reused instead of rebuilt. APIs.json, catalogs, and search make the APIs I operate visible to the people who need them. Good discovery is what turns a pile of AP...
