Author: jkosanovic

Person API Service Level Objectives

In this post I’ll share how our team measures the performance and availability of the Person API using Service Level Objectives (SLOs). Our team uses SLOs as a metric to know if there are any operational issues with the Person API as well as a tool for prioritizing new work. SLOs are based on Service …

Person API: Perspective on Versioning With the Transition to Workday

As part of the transition from Peoplesoft to Workday, the Person API will also be changing to source its HR data from Workday. The Person API has been designed to abstract the underlying systems it gets data from, and instead express data in a way that is generic but meaningful to UW integrators. This makes …

Person API Backend Implementation

The Person API is a web service that allows people to programmatically interact with common identity data about a person. We in the API Team within DoIT Enterprise Integration released this API back in the summer of 2022 and have been continuing to iterate on it to add new features and data. In this blog …

Person API is Ready to Use

The Person API is in production and ready to be used. Find out how to get access and submit ideas for new data and features.