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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)

Communication and collaboration model

The success of a platform-based model isn't just determined by having good self-service capabilities. Having a fluent and dynamic communications structure that ensures the platform team communicates and collaborates effectively, not only among themselves but also with other parts of the organization, is crucial to avoid silos and also prevent the negative effects of Conway's law.

Therefore, a comprehensive view, illustrating the sorts of communication channels and interactions that would be expected across the team, can be extremely useful in achieving an organization that is not just effective in terms of providing tools, but that can also communicate and collaborate effectively.

The following is an example of how such a view could look:

Figure 8.12: The API platform communication and collaboration model

As can be seen, the model...