The blind men and the elephant: The prevalence of silos in API architecture

When different teams own different parts of an API architecture without a shared view of the whole, the result is the blind men and the elephant problem: each team understands their piece well, and nobody sees the systemic issues.

This video examines how silos develop in API architectures, the specific blind spots they create, and what cross-silo API monitoring can reveal about failures and dependencies that no single team would otherwise see.