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May 20, 2025

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Demystifying API Lifecycle: Unpacking Essential Roles, Responsibilities and Their Challenges 

APIs are the invisible glue of modern digital ecosystems – powering microservices, enabling integrations, and accelerating innovation. But building and scaling successful APIs takes more than clean code, good documentation and enterprise governance. It requires a deep understanding of the API lifecycle from both provider and consumer perspectives, and the often-overlooked roles that bring it…

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A hand points at an API icon during a real-world adoption journey of contract-driven development.

March 13, 2023

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Contract-Driven Development – a Real-World Adoption Journey

The story of how a large financial services company adopted contract-driven development. Covering the situation on the ground before adoption and initial skepticism, and how
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An image of a woman experiencing microservices integration hell

January 17, 2023

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[Contract Driven Development – Post 2] Integration Hell

Integration Tests require the actual components/microservices to be deployed to a common environment. Because of this integration tests are able to verify the connections between
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API mocks

December 30, 2022

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[Contract Driven Development – Post 1] – The trouble with API mocks and stubs

Over the last 6-7 years, I've studied several microservices architecture transformations. What I've realised is a lot of them are not bearing the returns the
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A group of people integrating microservices using contract-driven development.

December 29, 2022

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Microservices Integration Done Right Using Contract-Driven Development

Contract Driven Development helps us leverage API specifications as executable contracts using Specmatic to shift left the identification of compatibility issues thereby eliminating / reducing
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