The mobile force that fuels the digital economy led to the need for businesses to establish an omni-channel approach to development in order to optimize costs, increase efficiencies, and improve customer experience. A facilitator of this approach was APIs, which led to the API economy and concepts such as API-led or API-first development practices. In addition, the microservices architecture has become the architecture of choice for modern development. API-based (that is, RESTful) communication among microservices has been adopted as the de facto standard because it is a good fit for the smart endpoints and dumb pipes, decentralized governance, and decentralized data management characteristics of microservices.
However, as the number of microservices increases in a microservices architecture, their management can become...