It might seem easy to design and deploy an API by following the predictable API development life cycle pattern. Without wasting a second thought, API developers might just wing it when starting their first APIs.
However, as APIs become the digital fabric of every system and service in an enterprise, you have to develop and manage hundreds or thousands of APIs — and lightweight engineering patterns might quickly prove insufficient to deal with the growing complexity.
Chaos can emerge as you deploy different versions of each API’s artifacts…
