Stakeholder guide

API Architect

Owns API architecture, design principles, and interface contract quality.

Relevant cycles

API Productization Cycle

The API-focused APIOps Cycles journey for productizing, designing, delivering, publishing, and improving APIs.

Relevant stations

Decisions and outputs

Decisions

  • Use the Business Impact Canvas to identify availability, security, and data risks that influence architecture options.
  • Use the Locations Canvas to capture geopolitical, regulatory, network, residency, and trust-boundary constraints.
  • Use the Capacity Canvas to capture current and future volumes, peaks, latency, caching, rate limiting, and scaling expectations.
  • Use metrics and analytics guidance to define how the chosen capability will be monitored and improved.
  • Compare viable architecture styles against the gathered requirements and document the selected pattern and rationale.
  • Architecture choices should follow from evidence about business impact, locations, trust boundaries, capacity, latency, data ownership, consistency, operability, security, privacy, governance, and cost.

Outputs

  • A justified architecture choice
  • Documented risks, locations, capacity, security, privacy, and operability constraints
  • Clear rationale for API, event, file, stream, data product, direct integration, or hybrid implementation style
  • architecture-decision
  • documentation
  • platform-config
  • metrics

Recommended resources

Facilitate as API Architect

Use these prepared prompts alongside the stakeholder decisions, outputs, stations, and resources summarized above.

AI facilitation

Prompt pack

Facilitate a station with API Architect

facilitate-station

Stakeholder: API Architect
Cycles: API Productization Cycle, Integration Productization Cycle
Stations: Architecture & Platform Decisions
Resources and canvases: Business Impact Canvas, Locations Canvas, Capacity Canvas

Act as an APIOps Cycles facilitator. Use the selected station questions, entry criteria, exit criteria, stakeholders, and related resources to guide the discussion. Produce decisions, evidence gaps, and next steps.