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Brad Drysdale , APAC Field Chief Technology
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• Are performant , reliable and scalable so consumers enjoy a high-quality service and want to continue reusing the organization ’ s services
An absence of any one of these properties won ’ t prevent an API from being deployed , but it will limit the value it can provide . APIs missing these properties may also be unreliable and difficult to use and could even cause security risks .
The evolving role of APIOps
To overcome these challenges , development teams are applying the proven principles of DevOps and GitOps to the API lifecycle and creating an APIOps environment .
As a result , the culture in successful API teams follows a product mindset , where each API is regarded as a product with a goal , a value and its own lifecycle .
For any of those ‘ products ’ to be reused , they need to be consumable . This means they :
• Are well designed , secure and compliant , and follow industry best usage and security practices
• Are fully documented , discoverable and accessible for consumers to find and ( re ) use
APIOps equips developers , architects and operators with self-serve and automated tools that ensure the quality of API specifications , implementations and operations is maintained throughout the lifecycle . It works by combining a service connectivity platform that supports APIOps with declarative delivery pipelines , automated governance checks and version control .
Building on GitOps , APIOps uses declarative configuration for automated deployments , which has superseded imperative configuration as the best practise approach to CI / CD because of its simplicity and efficiency .
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