APIs are a key way businesses operate at the speed and scale necessary for today’s economy. We designed Apigee, Google Cloud’s full lifecycle API Management platform, to give businesses control over, and visibility into, the APIs that connect applications and data across the enterprise and across clouds. Apigee was recently recognized by Gartner as a leader in the 2018 Magic Quadrant for Full Life Cycle API Management.

Are they basically just an evolved version of service-oriented architectures (SOA)? Since a microservice must be exposed via an application programming interface (API) for an organization to scale it to new developers, does that mean managing microservices is basically the same as managing APIs? As this article will discuss, the answer to both of these questions is a clear “no” — and companies looking to get the most from their microservices need to understand why.