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The Organizational Roots of API Sprawl

calendar_today July 18, 2026 domain programmableweb

In the first post of this series I made the case that API sprawl is mostly a systems problem, not a technology problem. So before I get to microservices and multi-cloud, I want to spend a post on the organizational roots, because in my experience this is where most sprawl is actually born. The APIs are just the exhaust.

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