Effective API Governance: Lessons Learnt
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Have you ever wondered how big companies deal with large amount of APIs? How do they keep consistency among the catalogue? Either if you are already running an internal API governance or you are thinking about start a new one, this talk will share our do’s and don’ts with the rest of the community.
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Effective API Governance: Lessons Learnt
- 1. ©2016AmadeusITGroupanditsaffiliatesandsubsidiaries Effective API Governance Lessons Learnt Alvaro Navarro Amsterdam, 10th October 2019
- 2. Once upon a time
- 3. Trip Purpose Prediction API Once upon a time
- 4. Once upon a time Returns the forecast purpose of a trip Business or Leisure based on a search criteria.
- 6. origin : MAD destination : AMS departure : 20191012 return : 20191015 Once upon a time
- 7. { "result": { "prediction" : "BUSINESS", "probability": 0.751 } } Once upon a time
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- 10. You need your API validated by the API Governance Board! Once upon a time
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- 17. Motivation More than 20 years working with APIs ○ EDIFACT ○ SOAP/XML ○ REST/JSON ○ Protobuf ○ GraphQL
- 18. Motivation Many people designing and implementing APIs
- 19. Motivation Difficult to reuse across backends
- 20. Motivation We need to regulate this!
- 21. What is the API Governance?
- 22. What is the API Governance? Community of API Designers and Developers
- 23. What is the API Governance? Owners of guidelines, data dictionaries and processes
- 24. What is the API Governance? Support
- 25. In Amadeus we introduced the HAPPY principle
- 26. What is the API Governance? Homogeneous
- 27. What is the API Governance? Homogeneous Active
- 28. What is the API Governance? Homogeneous Active Pragmatic
- 29. What is the API Governance? Homogeneous Active Pragmatic Positive
- 30. What is the API Governance? Homogeneous Active Pragmatic Positive Young
- 32. Why API Governance? As API Producer
- 33. Why API Governance? Design Guidelines and Standardization
- 34. Why API Governance? Design Guidelines and Standardization ❏ Errors ❏ Endpoint/parameters naming ❏ Improvements ❏ Data Dictionaries ❏ Versioning
- 35. Why API Governance? Using URLs http://api.amadeus.com/v1/flight-search http://api.amadeus.com/2018/flight-search http://api.amadeus.com/2018/02/flight-search Using HTTP Header Accept: application/vnd.amadeus.v1 Accept-Version: 1 Using a Query parameter $ curl http://api.amadeus.com/flight-search?version=1
- 36. Why API Governance? As API Consumer
- 37. Why API Governance? Better API integration and consistency
- 38. Why API Governance? import amadeus client = amadeus.Client() response = client.shopping.flight_destinations.get(origin = 'AMS', maxPrice = '500')
- 39. How do we make it work?
- 40. How do we make it work? Technical discussions: Decision Logs
- 41. How do we make it work? API submissions: Review Cards
- 42. How do we make it work?
- 43. How do we make it work? Under Construction In Progress Pending Validated Review Process ( 1 week )1 to 4 weeks ❏ Validated Review Card ❏ Documentation ❏ Swagger Designer
- 44. Lessons Learnt
- 45. Lessons Learnt Tools are your friends! ○ Designing ○ Documenting ○ Testing
- 46. Lessons Learnt Be an advocate and spread the word!
- 47. Lessons Learnt It's not a control entity ! Democratic approach when designing APIs
- 48. Lessons Learnt It is a place to speak and share knowledge