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Moving to containerized microservices is not an easy transition for developers who have been building applications using more traditional methods. There are a lot of new concepts and details developers need to consider and become familiar with when they design a distributed application, which is what a microservice application is. Throw Docker and Kubernetesinto the mix and it becomes clear why many developers struggle to adapt to this new world.Developers want to focus on the development of the logic, not on the code necessary to handle the execution environment where the microservice will be deployed. APIs have always been a productive way to connect services, and this is still true for microservices on Kubernetes (K8s). In this article, we will lay out why you can benefit from an API-first approach for building microservices applications on Kubernetes. Before we can dive into the how, let’s have a quick review of what API-first means and what one commonly refers to services in K8s. https://goo.gl/JqVvLA #DataIntegration #ML
