API Governance at Scale (Category Management)

Recently I read it. story Google’s API Governance Processes. In fact, this article directly precedes the article AI-Enhanced API Design: A New Paradigm in Usability and Efficiency. told earlier. In the article “API Governance at Scale”, the authors detail how and why the authors changed the approach to building an API. In fact, they came to a process that consists of three parts. 1) API Improvement Proposals It is a documented source of truth as to what the rules are for API design. 2) API Linter Automated verification of compliance of API rules from AIP (It's cool that the authors were able to codify AIPs and test them further in this lens.) 3) API Readability - Training and certification program API Design experts. The Readabity API process in Google is similar to their other process, or rather code readability, which I have already mentioned. told earlier

This study examines this process from the API creators and shows a positive impact on API quality from both the result and the process. Interestingly, the AI-Enhanced API Design sequel, mentioned above, looks at the same process from both API creators and users and shows a positive impact.

In general, the whitepaper is interesting and I will definitely do a more detailed analysis, but I recommend reading the article in the original - it is short, but very interesting:)

P.S. The pages from this article were an illustration of the whitepaper.

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