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May 20, 2025
Read time: 16 mins
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…
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
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
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
December 29, 2022
Read time: 10 mins
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