API Platforms

APIs are the connective tissue in today’s ecosystems that allow
services to exchange information. They are at the core of a
service architecture and act as a mediation layer to ensure that all connections between apps and services are abstracted and
flexible. In modern architecture, the API-based mediation layer
maps “outer APIs,” designed to be published and consumed
externally to “inner APIs” attached to internal services and
performing specific tasks.
However, the increasing number of APIs needs to be managed
and governed by a platform capable of grouping them into
business capabilities: design, build, publish, and consume.
With an API platform, it is possible to manage API delivery,
publication, and product management, and offer a searchable
API marketplace that uses the concept of composable business