Many enterprise IT departments have become big fans of an “API-first“ strategy. I think that in general, this is a bad idea. (Thread)
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Do you feel this happens when companies recommend teams/services interact primarily through APIs? Put another way, have you seen API-first show up primarily as a result of that kind of recommendation?
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No. Teams interacting via APIs seems like a completely reasonable approach to me.
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Why have you seen people choose an API-first approach?
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Replying to @Stephen_Mizell
Because they feel this will finally give common structure to their IT; because they believe it will make them faster; because analysts or vendors told them they need to do it

Apr 16, 2020 · 4:45 AM UTC

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Replying to @stilkov
Very interesting. I’ve taken the API-first approach myself and still do. However, as I think through your thoughts, it makes me wonder if I’ve used it in the past because UI work took too long. Or the design team was too busy. Not because it produced better results.
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