Standardization of APIs

May 4, 2011 / Melody Smith / Comments Off on Standardization of APIs

The API has become been the primary method of  integration within IT circles. When SOA was at its peak, the focus was properly on the abstraction of business functions at the API level, to provide for reuse and consistency of process across applications. However, with the focus of cloud APIs and infrastructure APIs on interoperability, it is difficult to get agreement among vendors on which functions make up a common base.

Sys-Con Media brought this topic to our attention in their article, “API Jabberwocky: You Say Tomay-to and I Say Potah-to.” Could standardization be the answer? APIs are important, but having a functional standardized cloud service management may not be on everyone’s “top 10” list. The differences in features that could be invoked via an API make true seamless interoperability a nearly unattainable goal. Perhaps standards would be useless.

Any thoughts on this topic?

Melody K. Smith

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Melody Smith

Melody K. Smith has provided organizational, social media and digital communication services to a large non-profit for the past twenty years. Prior to that she championed employee engagement and communications in the healthcare field. She holds a Bachelors degree in Marketing. When not wrangling and writing TaxoDiary content for your reading pleasure, Melody writes fiction, rescues dogs and throws legendary dinner parties.