How to Manage and Track Internal API's
So the premiss of this talk was to manage and track internal API's. One of the issues we have at our company is knowing what API's are existing, and how to access them.
There were some suggestions on management software:
- Layer 7
- Mashery
- WSO2
There is also elastic search to search all of your intranet, like a search engine.
If those options do not suit your fancy, you could create a custom website to manage your API's internally. You would need to be able to insert new API's into your site. Searching would also be needed, perhaps on Domain or keywords. To do this well, everyone should have some documentation. People even suggested using swagger to the site to help people play with the API before using it.
One issue of this approach is making sure you populate the web site, or tool. Not only that, but you should have some API governance to make sure people are following this process and making the website or tool worthwhile.