The benefits of moving to cloud native architectures often shadow its costs in security, scalability, complexity, and monitoring.

As monoliths become microservices, direct client-to-APIs communication means exposing the APIs for each microservice. This means that the API developers need to add functionalities like authentication, rate limiting, traffic control, and monitoring to each microservice.

Moreover, making changes to the API, like splitting or combining services, puts a burden on the consumers, requiring them to update their client applications.

An alternative is to adopt an API gateway to sit between your client and your microservices.

In this talk, Navendu walks through API development best practices and how API gateways like Apache APISIX simplify API development.

He walks through how API developers can ensure security, deliver scalability, improve monitoring and analytics, and streamline development with Apache APISIX while building APIs for the evolving cloud.