API-First: LEGOs for Business, Spidey Sense

Companies today are developing APIs as an afterthought instead of treating them as a driver of business value. APIs are built, managed, and distributed using a mix of siloed tools for designing, testing, documenting, and distributing them, each used by separate teams across the API lifecycle. While each tool does the job it was meant to do, working

I have been a long‐time fan of public APIs as a part of a company's product strategy. I consider developers to be one of the consistently best sources of truly innovative product ideas.