Matthew ReinboldFor an upcoming article on "herding cats".
This post?
"This is my Eiffel Tower. This is my Rachmaninoff's Third. My Pieta. It's completely elegant, it's bafflingly beautiful, and it's capable of reducing the population of any standing structure to zero." - Justin Hammer as played by Sam Rockwell in Iron Man 2
At least until the next one. #APIs #softwareGovernance #APIgovernance
https://netapinotes.substack.com/p/struggling-to-manage-api-program
Herding API cats? In this edition of Net API Notes, I'll share a way to organize the universe of competing API concerns into an approachable, concise model. I'll share a handful of stories on how this model has helped real-life enterprise challenges and end by dispelling a few myths about one of the most misunderstood phrases in corporate culture: software governance (which includes APIs).
https://netapinotes.substack.com/p/struggling-to-manage-api-program #APIs #management #governance #softwareGovernance
"A typical response among leadership, when they recognize they have a problem, is to centralize all the things. Whether that is establishing a CENTER OF EXCELLENCE, the more mealy-mouthed CENTER OF ENABLEMENT, or some other variation, the resulting organization and process risks too much convergence... While the simplest to understand, these "command-and-control" approaches to "stop the bad thing from happening" are often a poor match for modern software needs." https://netapinotes.substack.com/p/struggling-to-manage-api-program