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Images for APIs

Including images as part of the metadata for your APIs helps make APIs more visible as part of portals, documentation, and other resources.

Rules

APIs.json Apis Image Info

Each API defined within an APIs.json file can include a dedicated image, offering a visual representation of the resource or capability it provides. This enhances the API's approachability and visu...

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,...

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...