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Enterprise API Management

By : Luis Weir
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Enterprise API Management

By: Luis Weir

Overview of this book

APIs are the cornerstone of modern, agile enterprise systems. They enable access to enterprise services from a wide variety of devices, act as a platform for innovation, and open completely new revenue streams. Enterprise API Management shows how to define the right architecture, implement the right patterns, and define the right organization model for business-driven APIs. Drawing on his experience of developing API and microservice strategies for some of the world's largest companies, Luis Weir explains how APIs deliver value across an enterprise. The book explores the architectural decisions, implementation patterns, and management practices for successful enterprise APIs, as well as providing clear, actionable advice on choosing and executing the right API strategy in your enterprise. With a relentless focus on creating business value, Luis Weir reveals an effective method for planning, building, and running business products and services with APIs.
Table of Contents (9 chapters)

Roles and responsibilities

Under a platform-based TOM, there are two main teams for which clear roles and responsibilities are to be defined.

Figure 8.11: TOM roles and responsibilities for API products

API product teams

The API product teams are accountable and responsible for individual API products, and are therefore also responsible for executing all of the activities of the API life cycle (refer to Chapter 7, API Life Cycle, for more details on the API life cycle).

There can be as many API product teams as required, as long as there is a clear understanding of which team owns which API. Ideally, there should be one-to-one mapping (one product to one team); however, on occasion, it might make sense to give a team more than...