Consumer-centric API governance, a roadmap for API products, OpenAI, museum APIs, common API management mistakes, and more...
Consumer-centric API governance, a roadmap for API products, OpenAI, museum APIs, common API management mistakes, Avoid baking in service layer, and more...
We've published a ton since our last digest, so hoping this gets us back on track! First off, we had a great discussion with Kin Lane and Alianna Inzana at last week's webinar Consumer-Centric API Governance. It'snow live on YouTube. Read the blog summary here.
In this digest, we welcome Sabrina Macpherson to the blog for the first time to share her API product management expertise. Discover her dual roadmap approach to API strategy.
In the wide world of web APIs, the need for governance and shared standards increases as a business seriously considers its data value and platform strategy. But, assembling the right governance approach is quite a balancing act of priorities. Thankfully, best practices have emerged. With OpenAPI Specification and the surrounding tooling ecosystem, API providers are well-positioned to build a governance approach that works. In our LiveCast, Consumer-Centric API Governance, we brought in experts Alianna Inzana, Smartbear, and Kin Lane, Postman, to discuss how to build and enforce fair platform-wide API policies that accelerate business objectives...
When I first started working in product, I was a junior Product Development Manager (PDM) working on a public-facing website... It took me a while to figure out how to make it practical in the world of APIs. Because the product wasn’t as tangible as a website or an app, it wasn’t immediately clear how my users were different and that I needed to adjust my approach. My solution feels instinctual to me now, but I struggled to adapt to this when I first started. So, here are some of my thoughts on how to tackle product strategy when you’re the product manager of an API.
A new beta release from OpenAI has thrown the API world into a speculative frenzy of the potential and implications of AI and APIs. Both APIs and AI have been around for a while. They might not be as headline-grabbing as they once were, but with the arrival of GPT–3, that looks as if it’s about to change. AI working in conjunction with APIs, are a powerful combination. Together, we may be standing on the brink of the augmented future we’ve been waiting for.
In recent years, many art museums have turned to APIs to unlock the secrets of their archives. I recently met with Maria Kessler, Senior Program Manager of Digital Partnerships at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, to discuss its Met Collection API and overall digital strategy. By opening up with APIs, the museum can inspire new ways of accessing its collection, “connecting people to art in different ways, and connecting people to creativity, knowledge, and ideas,” says Kessler.
To make the most of internal APIs as well as external API subscriptions, enterprises have resorted to various API management solutions. These solutions help in creating, implementing, publishing, securing, monitoring, and managing APIs. However, many enterprises fail to maximize the value of API management platforms due to some common mistakes. In this article, we discuss the following top five API management mistakes, and how to avoid them: Lack of executive support, unsupportive organization structure, lack of education and awareness, poor API platforming, insufficient peripheral tooling.
Programmers have been writing APIs since the ancient world of EJB, Messaging, and SOAP, and now REST. The main benefits of modern web APIs arise from decoupling the backend from the client service. So, how do we design quality APIs that achieve this goal? In this article, we’ll consider methods that help you bake great interfaces independent of the service layer.
Let’s face it: there are plenty of developers who don’t care about you or your API product. They simply want a quick integration to build what they need and when they need it. No marketing spiel will change that. We’ll call them jaded developers. In this article, we’ll look at how you can still market to folks that honestly could care less. You can do this through a combination of discovery (making your API easy to find), language (speaking the right language to potential users), and self-service tools to enable quick onboarding and easy ongoing maintenance.
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