API Guidelines Matter: How Google Manages API Guidelines

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API Guidelines are something that a lot of organizations aspire to, but they may still wonder how to best manage and use them. In this interview, Esther Kundin of @Google explains how Google's "API Improvement Proposals (AIP)" work, and what the most important success factors for guidelines are such as "Guidelines without tooling are not going to be useful". And yes, it's true that only few organizations need to operate at the scale and level of sophistication of Google. But it still is interesting to look at how they're doing it, in particular because there are many openly available resources to check out and possibly use: 👉 Google API Improvement Proposals (AIP) - https://google.aip.dev/ 👉 Google API Linter - https://linter.aip.dev/ 👉 Mak Ahmad, J. J. Geewax, Andrew Macvean, David Karger, and Kwan-Liu Ma, "API Governance at Scale". ICSE-SEIP '24, April 14–20, 2024 - https://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/155197 👉 JJ Geewax, "API Design Patterns", Manning Publications, October 2021 - https://www.manning.com/books/api-design-patterns 👉 API Guidelines in the Wild - https://dret.github.io/guidelines/ Are you using API guidelines or working on establishing them? What is your experience and are there interesting patterns and anti-patterns that you have seen? If you're interested in regular news from the API space, subscribe to "Getting APIs to Work" here: https://youtube.com/ErikWilde #api #apidesign #apimanagement #apiguidelines #apistrategy #gettingapistowork #digitaltransformation