APIs Need Secure and Scalable Delivery Too Most discussions of application delivery focus on traditional web‑based applications. Enterprises create web apps (or purchase them from third parties) and deploy them on their websites behind a human‑friendly UI layer so that customers can access goods and services via a browser or mobile device anytime and from anywhere. It’s well‑established that flawless delivery of web apps is critical to a company’s success. Less often discussed is the importance of providing flawless access to application programming interfaces (APIs), which enable applications to communicate directly with one another. Indeed APIs actually underlie much of the traffic on the Internet – when the human user accesses a website, his or her web browser actually makes calls to the web app’s API to request the assets needed to build the web page. Like web apps, many systems [ more… ]