We are living the API economy, and it is fueling the evolution of the digital world. Every day, new companies whose products are APIs are being created. New forms of APIs — GraphQL, gRPC — and new vendors around API, especially API security, are being created every month. At a recent API world conference I attended, I served on a panel about API trends where I said: “For a long time, APIs were gateways to fun.
There is a generational shift from APIs being just gateways to backend data sources to APIs being a place where new data architectures are born and new capabilities are produced.