One often-overlooked use of APIs by technologists is in automating and integrating with existing infrastructure. This includes foundational tools like GitHub, JIRA, and cloud services such as Azure and AWS, all of which offer APIs that can be automated.
Maintaining a comprehensive catalog of these APIs is essential for your operations and DevOps teams, as well as for developers working on internal or external applications. The effectiveness of your API delivery relies on these infrastructure APIs.
By keeping track of what’s available and making these APIs accessible as open API Postman collections, you enable automation and integration, which is a crucial component of your overall API strategy.