Close to half of the respondents working with application programming interfaces (APIs) said that microservices were the most exciting technologies for them in the next year, according to a 2020 state of the API survey. An API is a software intermediary that enables applications to interact with each other. An API can be a web-based system, database system, etc.
Most exciting technologies for people working with application programming interfaces (APIs) worldwide as of 2020
Characteristic
Share of respondents
Microservices
48.7%
Kubernetes
43.6%
Containers
42.2%
Serverless architecture
39%
GraphQL
33.4%
HTTP/2
24.7%
Event-driven
24.1%
Pub/sub
17.4%
Service mesh
9.9%
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