--- type: "article" title: "Weekly API Evangelist Governance (Guidance)" newsletter: "API Evangelist" newsletter_handle: "apievangelist" newsletter_url: "https://usecommune.com/n/apievangelist" author: "Kin Lane (@kinlane)" published: "2025-06-02T13:06:15.825Z" canonical_url: "https://usecommune.com/n/apievangelist/a/weekly-api-evangelist-governance-guidance-4" markdown_url: "https://usecommune.com/n/apievangelist/a/weekly-api-evangelist-governance-guidance-4.md" chat_url: "https://usecommune.com/n/apievangelist/a/weekly-api-evangelist-governance-guidance-4/chat" source_url: "https://buttondown.com/apievangelist/archive/weekly-api-evangelist-governance-guidance-5271/" body_source: "native" likes: 0 replies: 0 body_words: 636 --- # Weekly API Evangelist Governance (Guidance) *Let’s give a big Monday shout out to our*[*SDK partner APIMATIC*](https://bit.ly/3UFE1AP)*. API Evangelist storytelling occurs because of APIMATIC, and I am thankful to have their support for this ride!* It was a fairly slow week as we shift from spring into summer. I am reading [Steps to an Ecology of Mind, a Collected Essays in Anthropology, Psychiatry, Evolution, and Epistemology by Gregory Bateson](https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/S/bo3620295.html), which is informing my governance, domain-driven design, and tagging work—leaving me thinking about things at a very high level, but focused on the messy (beautiful) human aspects of what we do. ![](https://assets.buttondown.email/images/e620460e-01d9-4324-b48c-7a19f1e0412e.jpg?w=960&fit=max) *Steps to An Ecology of Mind* While the messy human aspects of doing APIs are pushing me to be more thoughtful about how I do what I do, vendors continue to see an opportunity to sell, intentionally choosing to not see the [business and politics of API automation](https://apievangelist.com/2025/05/29/the-business-and-politics-of-api-automation/) as they promise quick fixes to the human messiness of enterprise APIs. [![](https://assets.buttondown.email/images/09c6bb07-5e81-42c4-9c29-e77eeb6174f3.jpeg?w=960&fit=max)](https://apievangelist.com/2025/05/29/the-business-and-politics-of-api-automation/) *Business and Politics of API Automation* I regularly use the automobile as an analogy for what is happening with not just the Internet, but also the latest wave of [artificial intelligence agentic hype](https://apievangelist.com/2025/05/29/automobiles-are-also-agentic/), as the automobile, Internet, and artificial intelligence all share some very destructive and isolating characteristics, while still apparently having some “use” to humanity. [![](https://assets.buttondown.email/images/d80f411d-59d3-4973-9db9-b9e5fe0678c9.jpg?w=960&fit=max)](https://apievangelist.com/2025/05/29/automobiles-are-also-agentic/) *Automobiles Are Agentic* When you look our across the landscape of startups, it is easy to see how we’ve lost our way, and while many of us still perform in a theater where the customers of the products and services startups matter, you can tell that a [significant portion of startups are only tuned into the feedback loops with their investors](https://apievangelist.com/2025/05/27/feedback-loops-in-tech-reveal-who-the-customers-are/). [![](https://assets.buttondown.email/images/cf28d2c1-cb6e-473e-9dbc-353449d1ab17.jpeg?w=960&fit=max)](https://apievangelist.com/2025/05/27/feedback-loops-in-tech-reveal-who-the-customers-are/) *Investor Feedback Loops* It may seem like a win to be [injecting API governance anonymously into developers work streams using artificial intelligence in their integrated development environments](https://apievangelist.com/2025/05/30/developers-will-listen-when-api-governance-is-injected-into-ide-via-artificial-intelligence/), however, you will also want to consider what gets lost when you don’t have the feedback loop with teams when it comes to your API governance policies and rules. [![](https://assets.buttondown.email/images/8a5941e5-0831-42af-82d3-ccd23beeece0.jpeg?w=960&fit=max)](https://apievangelist.com/2025/05/30/developers-will-listen-when-api-governance-is-injected-into-ide-via-artificial-intelligence/) *Injecting API Governance Into IDEs Using AI* I shared [an interesting approach to using OpenAPI extensions for overriding of Spectral API governance rules](https://apievangelist.com/2025/05/27/standardizing-openapi-extensions-to-override-spectral-rules/), providing an useful way to enforce encryption across API servers expressed in OpenAPI, but also offering an approach that can be generalized across many different rules using a mix of standard OpenAPI extensions. [![](https://assets.buttondown.email/images/662f0882-ae95-4ebb-bac0-ba78913eade8.jpg?w=960&fit=max)](https://apievangelist.com/2025/05/27/standardizing-openapi-extensions-to-override-spectral-rules/) *API Governance Rule Override* As I am reading the Steps to an Ecology of a Mind [I find myself thinking about how the rules based approach to API governance reflects a very ontological approach to governing our API operations, but I feel pretty strongly that you will need to also embrace an epistemological approach](https://apievangelist.com/2025/05/30/ontological-vs-epistemological-api-governance/) otherwise you are too dependent on outside services and tools. ![](https://assets.buttondown.email/images/94db185c-10ac-4a04-a4ef-4863e892139a.jpeg?w=960&fit=max) *Ontological and Epistemological API Governance* I will write about it more today on the blog, but as of this week, I am joining forces with my old friend [Jérôme Louvel](https://www.linkedin.com/in/jlouvel/) as a co-founder of a company called Naftiko—coming on as the Chief Community Officer. I will be contributing and leading the open-source core of the Naftiko vision to modernize API consumption for cloud-native developers, enabling seamless and innovative API integrations that drive efficiency, enable versatile use cases, while elevating developer experiences. *** *“Thirty years ago, we used to ask: Can a computer simulate all processes of logic? The answer was yes, but the question was surely wrong. We should have asked: Can logic simulate all sequences of cause and effect? And the answer would have been no.” ― Gregory Bateson, Mind and Nature: A Necessary Unity* *** *If you need API Evangelist to help out with API governance*[*please let us know how we can help*](https://apievangelist.com/contact/)*. And thank you again to*[*APIMATIC*](https://bit.ly/3NyONos)*for their continued support. If you are interested in sponsoring our work and site please*[*review out sponsorship package*](https://partners.apievangelist.com/)*, and drop me an*[*email today*](mailto:info@apievangelist.com)*.* *** ## Discussion No replies yet.