"Building APIs is so simple. Caveat, it's not. Actually, working with tools with no security, you've got a consumer and an API service, you can pretty much get that up and running on your laptop in two or three minutes with some modern frameworks. Then, authentication and authorization comes in. You need a way to model this."
"If your users are outside an organization, or they need to cross trust boundaries, then it becomes a really big deal, and you have to start thinking about how you're going to make that consistent, regardless of what the API services look like in the background."
Jim Gough, a Java champion and architect of Morgan Stanley's API program, discusses the evolution of API connectivity and secure design approaches. While basic API development appears simple using modern frameworks, real complexity emerges when authentication, authorization, and cross-trust boundary requirements are introduced. Organizations must establish consistent security models across diverse API services, particularly when users operate outside organizational boundaries. Gough shares experiences from Morgan Stanley regarding architecture patterns, secure design from inception, developer collaboration, and workflow optimization for API management.
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