APIs Decoded: From Basics to Production-Ready | The IT Guy Show Ep. 4

I explored the world of APIs with Budha, a developer advocate at Tyk, an API management platform. We started at the fundamentals and worked our way up to what it takes to make an API production-ready.

A few things worth carrying away from this one:

• APIs are everywhere. Budha helped me frame just how central they have become to modern applications, even the ones you do not think of as API-driven.
• Gateways do the heavy lifting. We talked through how an API gateway manages and secures your APIs so you are not reinventing that layer yourself.
• Production-ready is its own bar. Getting an API working is one thing. We got into the considerations that separate a demo from something you can actually run at scale.

If APIs have always felt a little abstract, Budha does a great job making them concrete.