Articles by KENNETH

The Benefits of an API-First Approach to Building Microservices APIs are the connective tissue of cloud‑native applications – the means by which an application’s component microservices communicate. As applications grow and scale, so does the number of microservices and APIs. While this is an unavoidable outcome in most cases, it creates significant challenges for the Platform Ops teams responsible for ensuring the reliability, scalability, and security of modern applications. We call this problem API sprawl and wrote about it in a previous blog post. As a first attempt to solve API sprawl, an organization might try to use a top‑down approach by implementing tools for automated API discovery and remediation. While this is effective in the near term, it often imposes an undue burden on the teams responsible for building and operating APIs and microservices. They either have to rework existing [ more… ]