The API Trends and Beyond
summary
Data show APIs powering >80% of digital projects, 90% of developers use APIs (69% third‑party), and microservices doubled pods from ~500 to >1,000. Popular tools listed: GitHub, Jenkins, GitLab, Azure Pipelines; common images are nginx, Redis, Postgres. Market rates claim DevOps +19% CAGR and AI +30% CAGR; API attacks rise >100% and ~2% of calls are malicious. Rest remains dominant but GraphQL grows (19→24%) and Kafka adoption spikes to ~90%. Advice: create an API strategy, standards, docs and run a separate mode‑2 team first.
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chapters (17)
- 0:00Introduction
- 0:56How important is API
- 2:07Developer Perspective
- 3:33Business Driver Perspective
- 4:40Technology Driver Perspective
- 5:29Trends and Statistics
- 7:38Defaults
- 8:46DevOps
- 9:17AI ML
- 10:14Security
- 11:51Response
- 13:07IoT
- 14:20Protocols
- 15:55Graphql
- 16:47Kafka
- 18:09API Specification Trends
- 18:55API Challenges
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