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API Management
API governance, lifecycle, security, gateway architecture, and developer portal strategy across enterprise estates.
5 articles
API Gateway Modernization
Most enterprise estates running legacy API gateways have outgrown them in ways that aren't yet causing crisis. A practitioner view of when to migrate, when to leave the legacy gateway alone, and how to architect the migration so it doesn't become a years-long programme.
API Governance Fundamentals
API governance means everything and nothing. A framework that distinguishes the governance work that produces operational value from the governance work that produces theatre — and the minimum disciplines a maturing API estate cannot skip.
API Security Architecture
API security is a layered problem. The architecture that holds up treats the gateway, the transport, the authentication, the authorisation, the input handling, and the audit posture as separate concerns — each defended independently.
API Lifecycle Management
Most APIs in enterprise estates do not have a managed lifecycle. They have a birth and a slow decline. A practical view of what each lifecycle stage actually demands — and what the platforms that promise lifecycle management actually deliver.
API-Led Connectivity Fundamentals
API-led connectivity is the most consequential architectural idea to come out of enterprise integration in the last decade. It is also the most commonly misunderstood. A practitioner's view of what it actually means, where it fits, and where it falls down.