API Management: An Architect's Guide to Developing and Managing APIs for Your Organization

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12. API Governance

Brajesh De¹  

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Bangalore, Karnataka, India

 

API governance provides a policy-driven approach that defines and enforces standards and checkpoints throughout the API lifecycle. It encompasses not only the API runtime but also design through development processes. It includes the guidelines, standards, and processes for API identification, interface documentation, development, testing, deployment, running, and operation. Standards and principles defined by API governance provide API quality assurance, such as security, availability, scalability, and reliability. It ensures that ...