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Improve API Governance with These Shareable OpenAPI Templates

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Author
Matthew Reinbold
Word Count
871
Company Posts That Month
18
Language
English
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Summary

Organizations face challenges in managing numerous APIs, often leading to design inconsistencies that affect developer experience and require increased support. OpenAPI design templates offer a lightweight solution for aligning API design without the need for heavy-handed governance. These templates guide designers by providing uniform examples for common tasks such as pagination, versioning, and filtering, which helps maintain consistency and focus on business-specific problems. The Postman Open Technologies team created the OpenAPI Governance Template public workspace to support this effort, offering a repository of standardized templates that facilitate comparison of different design approaches and promote adherence to organizational style guides. This workspace not only improves API consumer developer experience but also encourages the use of established standards like RFC or ISO, enhancing compatibility across systems. By incorporating these templates into their processes, organizations can efficiently govern API design while enabling developers to customize and innovate within a structured framework.

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