Managing Okta with APIs

The use of APIs has been increasing and has become a large part of any organization's footprint. Within all departments, APIs are used to share, transfer, move, read, change, delete, and adjust data from any system to any system.

We might have to start by looking at what an API is and why Okta's functionality in this area is needed. Back in the early days, a web program was hosted on a web server and the browser only displayed its content through HTML sent from the server. These days, you might have apps on your smartphone or single-page apps, both that run code on your device or on the client. These apps connect with a backend service, usually exposed through an API. Simply put, you can say that services and applications that handle smaller tasks and connect and interact with each other through APIs are called microservices. As this newer model of applications becomes more and more common, finding a way of managing these APIs becomes more critical...