AUGUST - 2022CIOAPPLICATIONS.COM6Copyright © 2022 ValleyMedia, Inc. All rights reserved. Reproduction in whole or part of any text, photography or illustrations without written permission from the publisher is prohibited. The publisher assumes no responsibility for unsolicited manuscripts, photographs or illustrations. Views and opinions expressed in this publication are not necessarily those of the magazine and accordingly, no liability is assumed by the publisher thereof.AUGUST - 08 - 2022, Volume 08 - Issue 12 (ISSN 2644-240X) Published by ValleyMedia, Inc. To subscribe to CIO ApplicationsVisit www.cioapplications.com Managing EditorJoe PhillipSalesSebastian Jacobsebastian@cioapplications.comEmailsales@cioapplications.comeditor@cioapplications.commarketing@cioapplications.comEditorialOpenAPI and Design-First Mentality Carrying the DayWith the increasing need to build scalable, flexible software, businesses are increasingly turning to API-driven development as it enables them to provide core services to internal stakeholders or customers without locking them into a specific user interface. No doubt, the API economy is chugging along full steam ahead. With the sheer number of web APIs coming to market, it has become ubiquitous across microservices architectures, SaaS platform offerings, public product initiatives, IoT, and partner-partner integrations.The industry continues to change, introducing new API use cases across all sectors that heightened the need for an API program to maintain a quality developer experience and design the right API strategy. Standardizing the API development and design process can help in avoiding the complication of custom code as APIs are no longer a byproduct; they have become a design artifact. Amidst spiking cyberattacks, developers today have a strong imperative to retain high security and reliability for these integration points. Many struggles to handle authorization correctly and often open the door of opportunities to hackers to swap a different user ID into an API call to return loads of sensitive data or alter the data. No wonder the Open Web Application Security Project lists object-level authorization as a top API vulnerability.With a design-first mindset, developers can ward off security woes early in the API life cycle. Meaning they need to decide on a structure with a common design and choose appropriate style guide well before coding. Proper documentation, good design guides, and good discipline around building API with a cross-functional nature can help increase security and scalability. Developers are increasingly using OpenAPI tooling to direct their API design and development and generate useful documentation, sandboxes, and SDKs. Around 40 percent of companies have adopted OpenAPI in production as it reduces the redundancy of writing YAML files.Though more industries are utilizing APIs to aid their internal integration efforts, data privacy is still a pressing concern amongst many when opening up data and thereby seeking careful measures. Taking a design-first approach with standards like OpenAPI can help companies stay alert and ensure consistency across their portfolio of services.Let us know your thoughts.Joe PhillipManaging Editoreditor@cioapplications.comJoe PhillipGraphics & ArtEditorial StaffBen JacksonDaniel HolmesEzra BenjaminCatalina JosephRose DcruzSenior WritersClara MathewLeah JaneRoyce D'SouzaVictor Cruz Disclaimer: *Some of the Insights are based on our interviews with CIOs and CXOs
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