Is Platform Engineering Really Just API Governance?
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LONDON — “If API governance and platform engineering had a Venn diagram, they’d be a circle,” contended Mark Boyd, director of Platformable, during his keynote at the API Conference April 10.
He doesn’t distinguish between your API governance toolkit and your platform engineering strategy. And maybe you shouldn’t either. After all, both prioritize the same ideal customer profile: your internal developer colleague.
Indeed, APIs have emerged as the preferred way that developers want to access and build on top of any internal developer portals and golden paths to production. And a focus on API and data standardization and cross-organizational service reusability is at the foundation of any platform strategy.
“The API is the tail wagging the dog,” Boyd argued, “as so often APIs can fundamentally change the business.”
