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api governance · style guides · review

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Gateway Gus saysAPI governance keeps a growing API surface consistent — style guides and design review.

As many teams ship endpoints, drift creeps in. Governance counters it: a written style guide (naming, errors, pagination, versioning), automated linting of specs (Spectral on OpenAPI), and lightweight design review before new endpoints ship. The aim isn't bureaucracy — it's a coherent API that feels like one product, not ten teams' habits stapled together.

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Style guide for naming/errors/versioning
Automated spec linting (e.g. Spectral)
Design review before shipping endpoints
Goal: one coherent product, not drift

Timeout Titan attacks — common mistakes

No standards → every team invents its own
Heavy process that slows everything
Guidelines with no automated enforcement

Boss battleName three rules an API style guide should pin down.

Example code

<!doctype html><html><head><meta charset="utf-8"></head>
<body style="background:#06040d;color:#e6e0ff;font-family:monospace;padding:20px"><pre>style guide pins: casing · error shape · pagination
spec lint (Spectral) blocks violations in CI
design review before new endpoints</pre></body></html>

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