Federation Technologies for API Management: Apicurio, SwaggerHub, and Stoplight
Table of Contents
1. Federation
Google's open-source project is officially titled "Registry API" (blog post headline: "The API Registry API", Google Open Source Blog, Jan 2021, Tim Burks/Apigee) and lives at github.com/apigee/registry as a self-hosted reference implementation, not a branded "Google API Registry" hosted service. Corrected in the text below.
Federation in API management refers to the coordination of API specifications, schemas, and data models across multiple platforms, registries, and teams. Rather than a single central authority, federated API infrastructure lets teams independently own their API contracts while a shared registry (such as Apicurio or Google's Registry API) enforces compatibility and discoverability. Design platforms like SwaggerHub and Stoplight can then pull from that registry to keep documentation and SDK generation in sync.
3. OpenAPI
5. Related
- Design-Driven APIs – API design ahead of the registry
- API Development with Swagger – the OpenAPI tooling these registries ingest