Building an API is half the battle

<p>If you prefer, you can <a href="https://stackoverflow.blog/2023/03/13/building-an-api-is-half-the-battle-qa-with-marco-palladino-from-kong/">read this as a Q&A article</a> or <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=156r6AkpKbs&ab_channel=StackOverflow">watch the video</a>.</p><p><a href="https://konghq.com/">Kong</a> is a cloud-native API platform. The first iteration of an API marketplace Marco and his colleagues built was <a href="https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2017/10/16/1230930/0/en/Mashape-Rebrands-as-Kong-Inc-Declares-Monolithic-Application-Dead.html">Mashape</a>.</p><p>Developments like <a href="https://graphql.org/">GraphQL</a> and <a href="https://grpc.io/">gRPC</a> have become critical as the number of APIs increases over time.</p><p>Find Marco on <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/marcopalladino/">LinkedIn</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/subnetmarco?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor">Twitter</a>.</p>