What Customers Tell Us They Need for Modern API Management As a Sales lead for NGINX at F5, I often interact with customers that are using more than one API management framework. One customer I spoke with has five at last count! Why is this? There can be many reasons, but one situation we come across again and again is that as customers are transforming their applications from monolithic architectures to more microservices‑based architectures, they’re finding that their traditional API management framework no longer satisfies all their requirements. Before we examine the ways these traditional frameworks are no longer adequate, let’s take a look back at how we got to where we are today… The Evolution of Software Integration Architecture During the early 2000s we saw a growing requirement for an integration layer able to connect various front‑end services to [ more… ]