Application Programming Interfaces, commonly referred to as APIs, are the cornerstone of modern applications, enabling core features of complex software to be extended and integrated in many different ways. The cloud computing era has driven increased use of APIs, as has the adoption of Big Data.
As APIs have become pervasive, the complexity of managing APIs has grown. This has greatly boosted the market for API management tools, which offer a complex variety of features that enable organizations to develop, manage and secure APIs.