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Many IT organizations built an SOA (Service Oriented Architecture) in the mid-2000s or early 2010s. Other businesses, never did. But as both sets of organizations begin looking at an API initiative they ask questions about the relationships between APIs and Services: Are APIs and Services...
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Two extremely hot IT topics right now are APIs and Microservices. Unfortunately, too many people think this is one topic – i.e. they are the same thing. This is not correct. There are several misconceptions about APIs and Microservices, and throwing in Services (from Service Oriented...
Several years into the era of APIs and still one of the most common points of confusion is the positioning of APIs and Services (and Microservices) and the positioning of an Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) and API Management solution. Many see the similarities between an ESB and API Management –...
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During the Interconnect conference I was often asked about the positioning of APIs and Services (and API Management and SOA). We’ve taken a few runs at this topic before on this site, but given the level of interest in the topic I said I would write another blog addressing it. To start with...
I’m going to take a quick break from my industry tour of APIs to cover two questions I’ve been asked about quite often recently: “What is the recommended organization and governance structure for an API initiative?” “Is this analogous to what we did for Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)...