Rules Development

Machine-readable Spectral or Vacuum API governance rules have emerged as part of the wider conversation, vendor, and tooling landscape in recent years. API governance rules primarily focus on the technical details like ensuring API responses use a proper HTTP status code, and that API operations have summaries and description to deliver API documentation. However, API governance rules have also been rapidly expanding to other areas of API operations, governing beyond HTTP APIs, but also governing the operations surrouding APIs. API Evangelist provides a wide variety of base API governance rules, but can help develop existing or help you create entirely new rules to help you govern your API operations. We develop your rules and publish to a shared public or private GitHub repository for you to integrate into your design, development, and pipeline infrastructure. API Evangelist helps speed up your rules development, but also makes it more effective by focusing on the following areas. - **Metadata** - Establishing common naming, descriptions, messaging, and other aspects of rules that make them easier to use. - **Schema** - Better focus how rules are being applied to OpenAPI, but also to other standardized or custom schema in use. - **Coverage** - Work to understand the rules coverage across individual APIs, but also across wider API operations. - **Engine** - Establishing a rules engine that can help you use Spectral, Vacuum, or any other rules format to come along. - **Guidance** - Provide the guidance teams will need to move forward when they encounter a rule during design or build time. API rules development is an ongoing part of any API operations, but not always a skill that enterprise possess today. API Evangelist can help augment and backfill your existing needs while providing guidance and training to help grow your own internal capacity for rules development. While there are many standardized rules that will apply to any enterprise, there are also many nuances to API rules development that will be shaped by ythe way your enterprise does business, as well as the industry you operate in. API Evangelist has been helping shape the API governance conversation for the last decade and has the knowledge and experiene you need when it comes to developing the API rules needed to govern your API operations. API Evangelist has ready-to-go rulesets that you can apply out of the box, but we are also here to help develop entirely new rules or rulesets that help you govern specific areas of your API operations, but also specific stages of your API lifecycle.