The selection of the proper architecture for deploying your APIs should be based on a comprehensive analysis of business objectives, the target audience for the API(s), performance expectations, security policies, and so on. More often than not, pure cloud, as well as complete on-premise, solutions to API management are incapable of satisfying the diverse contradictory requirements of enterprise applications in today’s highly volatile business world.
For example, if you have a set of APIs that needs to be managed in a cost-effective manner with minimal intervention from your end, going for a 100% cloud-based API management offering may indeed seem like an ideal solution. While such API management platforms offer you a range of clear-cut benefits, are you aware of the inherent disadvantages associated with traditional SaaS offerings for managing your APIs? Have you considered the inefficiencies arising if both the API backends and the API consumers are behind your enterprise firewall, security concerns associated with API calls going through external gateways, and so on? https://goo.gl/fwPkSD #DataIntegration #ML
