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When you need to take down a service for maintenance, you need confidence in knowing that the rest of your APIs and client applications will continue to run smoothly. How can you be sure when you know the user list for the service documentation is unreliable and you don’t always know which APIs or applications depend on that service?

Now, you can use the API Connect Impact Analysis (APICIA) tool to help you understand these dependencies between your services and the APIs and client applications that rely on them. This tutorial shows how you can download and use this tool to help assess your API organizations.

For the full article please go https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/mw-1703-phillips/index.html

By Chris Phillips on July 13, 2017.

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