Information about OpenAPI usage and artifacts available for an API.
OpenAPI
Experiences
Consistency
When I look across the API landscape, consistency is one of the biggest challenges I see. Every team does things differently, and the surface area of inconsistency just grows until governance becom...
Discovery
Discovery is the dark matter of the API landscape. Teams build APIs that already exist somewhere else, and consumers can't find the APIs they need. Without a catalog and proper metadata, you're jus...
Interoperability
Interoperability is where standards really earn their keep in the API landscape. When every API uses different formats, patterns, and conventions, consumers pay the tax every time they try to integ...
Reusability
I watch teams rebuild the same patterns, schemas, and components from scratch over and over again. Reusability is one of the promises of APIs that we still haven't delivered on, and it's where a lo...
Policies
OpenAPI
OpenAPI is the technical contract that describes the surface area of each API in a machine-readable way. Documentation, SDKs, testing, and governance all flow from this single artifact.
API Catalog
An API catalog is the front door to your API program. If consumers can not discover and search for APIs with consistent metadata, they will never know what is available to them.