Enterprise-scale applications across industry verticals are being increasingly built as a collection of polyglot microservices. Due to the surging popularity of the microservices architecture (MSA) as the most optimized and organized application architecture, most business-critical applications are being meticulously designed, developed, and deployed as a set of independent, yet interactive, microservices. Another noteworthy trend is the tremendous success of REST APIs for services and applications. All kinds of applications (operational, transactional, and analytical) are being fitted with REST APIs in order to simplify application integration. Further down the line, web, cloud, mobile, and IoT applications are being stuffed with REST APIs.
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