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OpenAPI Is the Unit of API Governance

calendar_today June 25, 2026 person Kin Lane domain schema-validation

If landscape mapping is where governance starts, OpenAPI is where it lives. It is the center of gravity for everything I do when I govern REST APIs, and the reason is simple and worth saying out loud: OpenAPI is the machine-readable contract, and the contract is the thing you govern. Not the code.

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