With the proliferation of Microservices, a C ontract-1st approach keeps API changes consistent while an API Gateway keeps API operations under control. The weekly mood This is just another office day without too much project activity, so that i have enough time to review pre-defined team tracks, as well as my past achievements and future directions. I am now looking at our API Architecture Re-design. While our Platform based on Microservices architecture grew with the time, we happen to have quite a lot of heterogeneous APIs. This characteristic tends to become hard to manage and to maintain. Therefore we started a dedicated initiative. Why is API a hot topic? In a nutshell, an Application Programming Interface (API) is a generic facade that enables modularity and integration between software applications and components, independently from their technologies. In an API driven economy (aka. API Economy ), APIs are actually the main point of i...
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