Proper API governance can help you deliver more consistent APIs. Join Postman Chief Evangelist (and governance fanatic) Kin Lane in this webinar to learn essential elements of API governance using Postman. Kin will show you how the OpenAPI Specification and Postman Collections can help you test the results of each API while you measure, standardize, report, and govern APIs at scale.

1. API Governance
with Postman

2. CHIEF EVANGELIST, POSTMAN
Kin
Lane
@kinlane

3. Housekeeping Items
Attendees are muted1
Ask questions under Q&A2
A recording of this session will be shared3
Brief survey (you could win an Amazon gift card!)4

4. Agenda
Intro to API Governance1
API Design Governance2
Measuring your API Design3
Automating Governance4
Governance Reporting5
Evolving your Governance Strategy6

5. Providing guidance for teams when it comes to delivering APIs
Using consistent design patterns across all APIs in operation
Delivering consistent experiences for API consumers across all APIs
Having a definition of success while measuring and reporting on outcomes
What is API Governance?
Employing common schema across all API requests and responses
Establish machine readable rules for validating the use of common patterns

6. 1995 Today2000 2005 2010 2015
The API Explosion

7. But Most APIs Are Poorly Built
and Difficult to Use

8. API Consumers
APIs have lots of bugs and aren’t reliable
Disconnected development tools
Lack of governance and version control
Can’t find useful documentation
APIs are hard to use and buggy
Hard to get started with an API
API Producers and API Consumers
Are Disconnected
API Producers
X
X
X
X
X
X

9. API Consumers
APIs have lots of bugs and aren’t reliable
Disconnected Development Tools
No Governance or Version Control
Can’t find useful documentation
APIs are hard to use and buggy
Hard to get started with an API
API Producers
X
X
X
X
X
X
API Producers and API Consumers
Are Disconnected
Lack of governance and version controlX

10. Leading to More Investment
In API Governance

12. Welcome to Union Fashion!

13. Let’s Take a Look
Demo

14. Applying Governance Consistently
across Operations

16. Ensuring APIs Are Delivering
What Customers Need

17. bit.ly/api-governance
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18. Q&A
@getpostmanpostman.com