API Infrastructure at a Crossroads: GitHub Breach Accelerates Self-Hosting Debate

GitHub's breach of 3,800 internal repositories through a compromised VS Code extension forces a critical reckoning on where API specifications, credentials, and test data should actually live. Rather than a straightforward cloud-versus-on-premise choice, this incident exposes how supply chain vulnerabilities can infiltrate even security-conscious organizations, prompting teams to actively classify their data and deliberately decide whether sensitive API assets belong within their own secure perimeter or in vendor-managed clouds.