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API Management

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There are commercial entitites/vendors related references in this article that pose a question to the merits of it being a definitive impartial article at all. API management as a discipline goes back decades as it has been practiced. The notion of an API (Application Programming Interface) and management (the ability to manage who, what, when, how, why, and finally how often) are separate disciplines in their own right, and have their own articles. API management in the light of REST based applications or service invocations etcetera are a more narrowly focused notion of APIs. It discredits the various other methods of APIs and management that are available at large today - space based computing, asynchronous queuing, fire and forget broadcasting, in-memory /shared-memory calls etc.. lex lapax (talk) 09:45, 11 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Delete or Redirect to IT Governance: The claims in this article are simply not true. API management is not a new concept, it's just IT Governance and SOA Governance following marketing hype into a new terminology phase (we seem to be using API now where things were called Web Services or RESTful Services before). -- BenTels (talk) 17:04, 11 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Computing-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 17:43, 11 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Software-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 17:44, 11 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]