If you are building new applications on public cloud platforms, you are faced with a choice: Should you build a set of APIs bound to the new cloud application’s application services? Or should you look for another job?
I’m seeing many new cloud applications that are built to fail. Not because they are poorly designed, but because they are leaving out the power of using application services with well-defined and designed APIs that let other applications access those services.
This use of APIs is no longer optional. The cloud platforms themselves are API-driven. They provide storage services, provisioning services, database services, etc., and they like to work with other things that use APIs.
