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Written by apinity
21.02.2023
Estimated Reading time 5 min
As companies grow and tend towards more digital solutions and processes, two problems are created: a growing number of available APIs and a dispersion of those APIs across different domains of the organization.
It becomes increasingly easy to be stuck in a forest of APIs. Who is maintaining it? Can I use it? How is it secured? Is it obsolete?
Resolving these issues is where Reusable APIs come into play
A reusable API is an API that is designed from scratch with the goal of being multi-purpose and inter-domain. They connect different applications or systems, preventing each one of those from defining its own, redundant, variant. The obvious benefit is the efficiency of developing, maintaining, and managing a single API for the same goal.
Developers can avoid the implementation of redundant services across different teams or departments. Reusable APIs are therefore less maintenance-intensive and should allow streamlined testing. Teams of developers can then start cooperating more with other departments and share the burden of particularly high-cost features, increasing their implementation efficiency and reducing the time needed to go to market.
It also becomes easier to have a unified API governance strategy by which you can manage and enforce standards and policies for APIs - ensuring APIs are developed consistently across your organization - just like the standards you should apply to the code used to bring them to life.
In the end, you are also changing the company culture and processes
In the end, you are also changing the company culture and processes, fostering collaboration and communication across departments and teams, as well as establishing processes for identifying and prioritizing reusable API opportunities.
But any time of API, even reusable ones, need a central place to be cataloged and made available to anyone that might have an interest in using them.
With apinity exchange, we provide a medium to make your APIs available across your organization, to different departments and teams, or even to the outside world in case you want to promote the usage of a service you provide or even monetize your APIs. And API security, documentation, monitoring, lifecycle, and traffic management are all baked into our solution.
As a consequence of this, apinity exchange provides you the framework and opportunity to design APIs in a completely different mindset; your organization stops designing the APIs in a siloed way: from prioritizing your immediate needs to prioritizing making the API ready for consumption via multiple third parties with apinity exchange - this is a fundamental shift in the way you design APIs and set up your API governance strategy.
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