Need help with your APIs? I offer API discovery, governance & evangelism services. Explore services →
API Evangelist API Evangelist
Learnings
Guidance
Toolbox
Alignment
API Evangelist LLC

Gateways

All APIs are made available via a designated gateway for the company, domain, line of business, or team, ensuring that all APIs have access to shared authentication, rate limits, service composition, and the other modern capabilities of API gateways.

Rules

APIs.json Apis Properties Gateway Info

This property ensures that there is a reference to the gateway for an API, referencing where you can manage the configuration for each API

Strategies

APIs Are Made Available Through a Platform Gateway

All APIs must be deployed through a common platform gateway established for the domain, line of business, or team, leveraging development, staging, and production environments, and a common set of ...

APIs Are Protected from Abuse and Misuse

All APIs must have abuse prevention mechanisms beyond basic rate limiting, including throttling, quotas, circuit breakers, and bot detection, ensuring the stability and availability of APIs for leg...

Lifecycle

rocket_launch Deployment Develop

Deployment is how a definition becomes a running API. Whether it is a gateway, a serverless function, or a container, I want deployment to be automated, repeatable, and driven from the same contrac...

tune Management Production

Management is the day-to-day operation of an API in production. Plans, rate limits, keys, and access all get administered here, usually through a gateway. Solid management is what lets me offer an ...