- Dec 6, 2024
- 1 min read
In most enterprise API programs, access requests bottleneck on a small number of system administrators. A developer wants to use an API; the request goes to a queue; the queue is processed when someone has time. Multiply that pattern across hundreds of APIs and thousands of developers and the bottleneck becomes a meaningful operational tax.
The pattern that scales better is putting approval decisions in the hands of the people who actually know whether access should be granted — the product owners responsible for each API. This walkthrough shows how that works in Apiboost.
What the video covers:
The app developer side — creating apps, requesting access, navigating the approval flow
What the "pending" state means and why access isn't auto-granted
How product owners review and decide on requests case-by-case
Why distributing approval routing scales better than centralized admin queues
For the broader framework on access governance, see our six-dimension framework for evaluating developer portals — Dimension 3 covers this in depth.
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