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The Volvo Cars API Lifecycle
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2
CHOOSE AN API
Browse the API Catalog, choose an API that suits your needs and request access (if approval is needed).
3
CONNECT & DEVELOP
Use the active API docs and the test URI:s to start developing. Then request access to production APIs.
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GET API ADMIN ACCESS
Follow the API LifeCycle guidelines and request API Admin access (approval required).
3
PUBLISH YOUR API
Select security option, throttling policies, metrics, public availability, environment and fire away.
Why API Management?
The application landscape of Volvo Cars has been built over decades. From early critical manufacturing systems to recent connected cars and mobile consumer experiences. API Management play a crucial role in enabling connectivity between service- and information sources.
Volvo Cars Digital Architecture Principles
Be API Driven
Design for reuse and innovation through loose coupling. ■ Share services and decouple applications and information domains through well-designed and versioned APIs. ■ Design the APIs so that they can easily be combined and utilized in multiple contexts. ■ Design for multi-brand support. ■ Keep coupling between providing services and consuming applications as loose as possible.
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