Most companies have transitioned to become more software-centric, and with this transformation, application programming interfaces (APIs) have proliferated. At the same time, API standards are becoming difficult to enforce among ballooning technology catalogs, influencing a greater emphasis on API governance: the practice of defining and enforcing policies that ensure they’re consistently designed, versioned, and have access control in place, says Mark O’Neill, VP analyst and chief of research for software engineering at Gartner.
