1. Summary
This report focuses on API management platforms deployed in the cloud. The cloud enables enterprises to differentiate and innovate with microservices at a rapid pace. It allows API endpoints to be cloned and scaled in a matter of minutes. And it offers elastic scalability compared with on-premises deployments, enabling faster server deployment and application development, and allowing less costly compute.
More importantly, many organizations depend on their APIs and microservices for high performance and availability. For the purposes of this paper, we define “
high performance” as that required by companies that experience workloads of
more than 1,000 transactions per second and need a