IBM API Connect Governs the Whole Lifecycle With Spectral

I’ve spent this whole series arguing that governance shouldn’t be a single gate you slam into at the end, but something that shows up at every stage of the lifecycle — in the editor while you’re authoring, in the pipeline when you push, and in the review after. So I paid attention when Denis Mattimoe, the software architect who leads the API Governance service in IBM API Connect, reached out to walk me through how his team does it. Because API Connect turns out to be a shipping, commercial example of exactly the shape I’ve been describing: the same Spectral engine I keep telling you to adopt,