3 years ago

Category: Deployment, Software, Business, Data, Docker, Infrastructure, Architecture

In layman terms, an API is an interface that you can use to deliver your business capabilities and business data as valuable information to your customers. As an example, if you own a retail store, you can sell an item to a customer who is sitting on his couch at his home through an API.

The fundamental idea of an API is to build an interface that exposes your business functionality to internal and external users.

In addition to that separation, there is a hexagon in those components that describes a micro gateway that can be used in certain use cases where you need to deploy one or a selected set of APIs in an isolated runtime which can work independently from any other component.

In this article, we covered the fundamental requirements of an API platform and how that can be scaled within an organization to reach out to more customers and then make it future proof.