The State of API Gateways
The State of API Gateways Microservices, as a concept, are almost synonymous with cloud‑native applications by their very nature – having small components, networked together and then distributed as loosely coupled services. APIs have been around for decades, so API gateways are not a new concept. But as part of the transition from monolithic to microservices‑based apps, the industry has largely moved from SOAP APIs with XML‑encoded payloads to REST APIs with JSON‑encoded payloads. Not only have the underlying technology and data formats changed, we’ve also changed the way we build APIs and the messaging and interaction style they use. Microservices and API Management A hugely distributed environment, with hundreds of APIs that are owned by individual developers, inherently creates challenges by virtue of its size and distributed nature. You may have multiple API gateways – one for each API, one for [ more… ]
