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Alvaro Navarro
October 10, 2019
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Effective API Governance: Lessons Learnt
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© 2016 Amadeus IT Group and its affiliates and subsidiaries
Effective API Governance Lessons Learnt Alvaro Navarro Amsterdam, 10th October 2019
Once upon a time
Trip Purpose Prediction API Once upon a time
Once upon a time Returns the forecast purpose of a
trip Business or Leisure based on a search criteria.
GET /flights/predictions/purpose Once upon a time
origin : MAD destination : AMS departure : 20191012 return
: 20191015 Once upon a time
{ "result": { "prediction" : "BUSINESS", "probability": 0.751 } }
Once upon a time
Accept: application/vnd.amadeus.v1.full+json Once upon a time
Once upon a time
You need your API validated by the API Governance Board!
Once upon a time
Once upon a time
Once upon a time
Once upon a time
Once upon a time
Once upon a time
Hello World @alnacle
Motivation More than 20 years working with APIs ◦ EDIFACT
◦ SOAP/XML ◦ REST/JSON ◦ Protobuf ◦ GraphQL
Motivation Many people designing and implementing APIs
Motivation Difficult to reuse across backends
Motivation We need to regulate this!
What is the API Governance?
What is the API Governance? Community of API Designers and
Developers
What is the API Governance? Owners of guidelines, data dictionaries
and processes
What is the API Governance? Support
In Amadeus we introduced the HAPPY principle
What is the API Governance? Homogeneous
What is the API Governance? Homogeneous Active
What is the API Governance? Homogeneous Active Pragmatic
What is the API Governance? Homogeneous Active Pragmatic Positive
What is the API Governance? Homogeneous Active Pragmatic Positive Young
Why API Governance?
Why API Governance? As API Producer
Why API Governance? Design Guidelines and Standardization
Why API Governance? Design Guidelines and Standardization ❏ Errors ❏
Endpoint/parameters naming ❏ Improvements ❏ Data Dictionaries ❏ Versioning
Why API Governance? Using URLs http://api.amadeus.com/v1/flight-search http://api.amadeus.com/2018/flight-search http://api.amadeus.com/2018/02/flight-search Using HTTP
Header Accept: application/vnd.amadeus.v1 Accept-Version: 1 Using a Query parameter $ curl http://api.amadeus.com/flight-search?version=1
Why API Governance? As API Consumer
Why API Governance? Better API integration and consistency
Why API Governance? import amadeus client = amadeus.Client() response =
client.shopping.flight_destinations.get(origin = 'AMS', maxPrice = '500')
How do we make it work?
How do we make it work? Technical discussions: Decision Logs
How do we make it work? API submissions: Review Cards
How do we make it work?
How do we make it work? Under Construction In Progress
Pending Validated Review Process ( 1 week ) 1 to 4 weeks ❏ Validated Review Card ❏ Documentation ❏ Swagger Designer
Lessons Learnt
Lessons Learnt Tools are your friends! ◦ Designing ◦ Documenting
◦ Testing
Lessons Learnt Be an advocate and spread the word!
Lessons Learnt It's not a control entity ! Democratic approach
when designing APIs
Lessons Learnt It is a place to speak and share
knowledge
Thanks! developers.amadeus.com