Software specialists increasingly find themselves in situations where their API-related decisions have strong implications on software business. Through long-lasting research collaboration with API-responsible software specialists and several large software-intensive companies, we have established a strategic API framework to aid in consideration of business concerns when designing, updating, or maintaining APIs. We provide the following actionable insights in this article: 1) our framework combines multiple layers and perspectives that provided value for our partners in their in API design, 2) the framework helps API designers to better organize their design decisions amongst various business and technical concerns and 3) the framework supports development of holistic API strategies, as it supports: APIs as objects of digital innovation, allowing to derive important boundary objects; BAPO perspective on API development; and consideration of API governance. We use anonymized examples from our partners to illustrate the application of the framework.

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API 策略的新兴观点 [未编辑]

软件专家越来越多地发现他们的 API 相关决策对软件业务有重大影响。通过与负责 API 的软件专家和几家大型软件密集型公司的长期研究合作，我们建立了一个战略 API 框架，以帮助在设计、更新或维护 API 时考虑业务问题。我们在本文中提供了以下可操作的见解：1) 我们的框架结合了多个层次和视角，为我们的合作伙伴在 API 设计中提供了价值，2) 该框架帮助 API 设计人员在各种业务和技术问题中更好地组织他们的设计决策3) 该框架支持整体 API 策略的开发，因为它支持： API 作为数字创新的对象，允许派生重要的边界对象；BAPO 对 API 开发的看法；并考虑 API 治理。我们使用来自合作伙伴的匿名示例来说明该框架的应用。