Interview with – Bradford Stephens
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Enterprises are finally taking APIs seriously, claiming adoption lags four years behind startups while starting to invest in making services public, securing endpoints and improving collaboration. The biggest concrete hurdle is designing robust APIs: choosing what to expose, path structure, authentication and managing identity across APIs remain manual, error-prone work despite libraries and toolkits. Expect the next wave of engineering to focus on tooling that makes API rollout as natural as writing business logic.
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