Modern API Management: Connecting Data-Driven Architectures Alongside AI, Automation, and Microservices

Unlock your AP-Why. When assessing prominent topics across DZone, and the software engineering space more broadly, it simply felt incomplete to conduct research on the larger impacts of data and the cloud without talking about such a crucial component of modern software architectures: APIs.

Modern API management is where the theoretical becomes actionable. No longer are high-level architectures and design enough; we explore the emerging ways in which our isolated data — located on-prem, in the cloud, or in a hybrid environment — can better integrate with and work alongside other application components via approaches like API generation, gateways, and more.

In this year’s “Modern API Management” Trend Report, we plan to further assess emerging API influence and implementation techniques, including GraphQL, API security, automation, and AI. In a world where applications and data capabilities grow increasingly complex, communication is key.