Foreword
Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) are not new—we have heard about them, exposed them, and used them for decades. In the early days of APIs, they were little more than method calls made to functions exposed by developers for developers within a limited scope and to a very specific audience. Over the years, with the emergence of protocols, such as SOAP, Web Services established themselves as the standard to extend and leverage existing systems via interfaces exposed—arguably an evolution from APIs themselves.
As Web Services and Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) went through the lifecycle from hype to reality, managing these services became extremely important, giving birth to the concept of SOA Governance. SOA Governance has ...
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