Real-Time APIs: Stories from the Real World
Real-Time APIs: Stories from the Real World Real‑time APIs have become part of our daily lives. From ordering food from to buying and selling stocks using our mobile phones, many day-to-day activities entail interaction with real‑time APIs. But what does this look like from the perspective of the API publisher? What market demands are driving companies to serve APIs in real time? How are NGINX customers achieving real‑time performance? Let’s look at some examples. Managing API Traffic at Scale for a Microservices‑Based Application Situation African Bank was founded in 2016 in South Africa to provide digital banking services to underserved and rural customers. They built a modern application using microservices from the ground up. Challenge A sophisticated microservices architecture based on a reference architecture from NGINX provided speed-to-market and cost advantages, but introduced complexity around API scalability and inter‑service communication. Solution [ more… ]
