5 Ways to Fight API Sprawl (And Why You Should Care)
5 Ways to Fight API Sprawl (And Why You Should Care) This is the first post in a two‑part series about API Connectivity Manager: 5 Ways to Fight API Sprawl (And Why You Should Care) – this post Why API Developer Experience Matters (coming soon) APIs are the connective tissue of the modern Internet, linking data from the edge back to the cloud and on‑premises data centers. According to F5’s 2021 State of Application Strategy Report, leveraging APIs is the most popular of the various methods that organizations are using to modernize: 58% of organizations are adding a layer of APIs to enable modern user interfaces 51% are adding modern application components (for example, Kubernetes) 47% are refactoring (modifying application code itself) 40% are moving to public cloud (lifting and shifting) without modernizing In an API‑driven economy, APIs must be 100% reliable. [ more… ]
