APIs are everywhere now. They power the apps we use every day, facilitate contact between some of the world’s largest services, and have entire businesses built around them. According to a 2018 State of the Internet report by Akamai, API requests comprised around 83% of all web traffic.
The world practically runs on APIs, which is great news for those of us in this space. But it also means that managing and securing APIs effectively, without compromising their usability, is more important than ever. Not least, wherever your API fails, a comparable API may well exist that can do the job more efficiently.
At our 2024 Austin API Summit, Traefik Labs’ Sudeep Goswami joined us to discuss characteristics of modern API management solutions, when it might be time to consider implementing such a solution, and some common API management pitfalls.
Outlining what he calls the five critical pillars of API management, Goswami highlights a range of key criteria …