10 months ago

Microservices expanding into unwieldy messes and zombie APIs were among the concerns that emerged from this year’s https://www.postman.com/state-of-api/. For a handful of companies, APIs generated more than 75% of total revenue.

In this year’s report, 10% of respondents said that APIs powering microservices have grown large and unwieldy, creating “https://thenewstack.io/lets-take-our-conversations-about-microservices-to-the-next-level/” instead of microservices.

Nearly 60% of all respondents are concerned over zombie APIs — APIs that lack proper documentation and ownership, but persist after a developer has left the organization.

Engineers and developers ranked zombie APIs as a higher concern than executives did, who placed “loss of institutional memory” as slightly more concerning than loss of maintenance, aka zombie APIs.