APIs and Middleware: Connecting Modern Systems
APIs and Middleware: Connecting Modern Systems APIs are the doors to services in a modern software system. Middleware sits between client applications and the services, handling tasks that are not the core logic, such as security checks, data transformation, and routing. In today’s ecosystems, teams care about speed, reliability, and scale. API clients can be web apps, mobile apps, or other services. Middleware helps by routing requests, transforming data between formats, enforcing policies, authenticating users, and collecting logs and metrics. ...