Despite the prevailing narrative of API reuse that exists across different types of applications, many organizations opted to choose new protocols and patterns to deliver what they need, and are still facing reusability and redundancy issues, but now with more APIs and more API protocols in the mix to deal with.
- Web Applications Need APIs
- Mobile Applications Need APIs
- Now AI Applications Need APIs
- Want Our Data On Other Platforms
- We Want API Reuse Across Applications
REST chased web and mobile, GraphQL promised to solve it all, and event-driven has created more sprawl, without incentivizing much reuse. Artificial Intelligence is now showing us how we have failed to reuse and eliminate redundancy, while once again expanding the surface area of our enterprise tech debt.
This is part of ongoing series to aggregate all of the conversations we've had with enterprises about their APIs over the last five years into a single outline. If you have questions or would like to contribute to the downloadable API governance products we are developing, please reach out, and you can read the full post on LinkedIn.
