API Flow Diagrams For Complex Software Systems And APIs
API flow diagrams visually represent API behavior, easing communication & collaboration among teams, ensuring consistent behavior over time.
As modern software applications and platforms embrace the shift to cloud-based operations, API-based interactions have become very common. Microservice architectures often use internal APIs for communication between microservices, and many software products provide external APIs to users. As these applications evolve, existing API behaviors constantly change, and new APIs are introduced. In addition, individual API behaviors also become complicated as applications seek to expose larger functionalities through APIs. Over time, it becomes increasingly challenging to keep track of all the applic...