APIs have become indispensable

Path-breaking technologies are emerging and evolving fast toward digital innovation, disruption, and transformation. A variety of breakthroughs are being unearthed and popularized in order to bring in a variety of acceleration, automation, and augmentation in IT and business spaces. We are being bombarded with a number of application architectures, ranging from service-oriented architecture (SOA), event-driven architecture (EDA), and resource-oriented architecture (ROA) to MSA. Containers have become the default runtime for services. Cloud servers are being expressed and exposed as a collection of containers. With the surging popularity of container-orchestration platforms, creating container clusters and using them to run software applications and services has become the most prominent way to develop, deploy, and manage software. The cool convergence...