Define: "API Sprawl" in Business
Catastrophic fiscal burn
"Never volunteer to document the endpoints. You will be stuck doing it for the rest of your career."
The proliferation of application programming interfaces across an organization's network.
What does "API Sprawl" actually mean?
"An unregulated nightmare where 50 different apps are talking to each other and nobody knows who pays the server bill."
"We need to conduct an audit to manage our growing API sprawl."
"We can't shut down that legacy server because the API sprawl implies it might be running the payroll system."
By The Chief Waste Officer
18 years in the corporate trenches quantifying waste so you don't have to.
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