Like most Taylor Swift fans, I was disappointed in the Ticketmaster crash during the presale for her current tour. The preorder fiasco reminds me of bottlenecks that all enterprises and organizations encounter on their digital transformation journey while they strive to balance the delivery of stable products with rapid application development to drive innovation and meet evolving customer needs. At some point, their infrastructure will be calling out, “It’s me! Hey! I’m the problem! It’s me!”
I was at Google when we cofounded the OpenAPI Initiative and rallied support behind the OpenAPI Specification (OAS). I’ve watched how a series of open-source and open-spec projects like OAS have transformed the technology industry. If properly implemented, these projects can help companies avoid debacles like the one experienced by Ticketmaster.
There is yet another major advantage to adding both of these technologies to a modern cloud-native strategy: Scalability at once!
With this natural scalability advantage, when choosing to deploy API gateways with Kubernetes, enterprises can achieve the same level of scalability without all the fuss of figuring out another way to do it. In other words: the same technology that scales the back ends can scale the API infrastructure itself.
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