ICYMI: People have been asking me for more stories on API governance. Examples of how it is working, or not working at the companies, organizations, institutions, and government agencies I’m talking with. Some folks are looking for top-down ways of controlling large teams of developers when it comes to delivering APIs consistently across large disparate organizations, while others are looking for bottom ways to educate and incentivize developers to operate APIs in sync, working together as a large, distributed engine.
I’m approaching my research into API governance as I would any other area, not from the bottom up, or top down. I’m just assembling all the building blocks I come across, then began to assemble them into a coherent picture of what is working, and what is not. One example I’ve found of an approach to helping API providers across the federal government better implement consistent API patterns is out of the General Services Administration (GSA), with the Prototype City Pairs API. The Github repository is a working API prototype, documentation and developer portal that is in alignment with the GSA API design guidelines, providing a working example that other API developers can reverse engineer. https://goo.gl/To4HKx #DataIntegration #ML
