A changelog documenting the changes made to an API over time so consumers can track its evolution.
ChangeLogs
Experiences
Advocacy
Advocacy is the experience of an API having someone in its corner, speaking up for its consumers and carrying their needs back into the operation. Developer relations, evangelism, and outreach are ...
Collaboration
APIs are a team sport, and collaboration is the experience of many people working together to produce and consume them. Designers, developers, product owners, technical writers, and consumers all t...
Governance
Governance is the experience of keeping API operations consistent and aligned as they scale across teams and time. It is the discipline that connects strategy at the top to the rules being enforced...
Observability
Observability is the experience of being able to see what an API is actually doing in production. Logging, monitoring, analytics, and tracing turn an opaque running system into something teams can ...
Provenance
Failing to understand your API history increases the risk of repeating past mistakes in future API development. Establishing provenance for each API helps track changes over time and ensures new ow...
Stability
Stability is the experience of being able to depend on an API not breaking underneath you. It is built on thoughtful versioning, backward compatibility, clear change communication, and honoring com...
