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API Practice Patterns

Welcome
Blame the tool
Clarity is kindness
Correct by construction
A death by 1,000 cuts
Design a Hammer
Fifty Shades of Grey
Fish where the fish are
Grow an Orchard
Hold the line
keep-good-records
One way to skin a cat
Native Tongue
One way to skin a cat
Read the fine print
References
Roads, gates, & roundabouts
Tend the garden
Trust but verify
Walk a mile
Wash, Rinse, Repeat
You break it you bought it

Tend the garden

Tend the garden

^{Invest in API stewardship}

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maritime_pilot

Hire/groom people that understand APIs
Identify API champions
Add to MBOs.

Roads, gates, & roundabouts

Trust but verify

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