API Strategy & Practice Conference 2018

In a traditional large-scale eCommerce system APIs often exist alongside web UIs, administrative tooling, ETLs, and other integrations as just another way of interacting with a deeply interwoven and impenetrably monolithic platform.  APIs are just another “How” to interact with the data and systems.  Using a microservice oriented approach moves APIs from just being a “How” to being the central “What” of our systems.  Along with the enormous benefits of a microservice architecture, we also have a whole new set of options and challenges to work through along the way.  In this talk, we’ll look at how Pizza Hut has met these challenges in the process of implementing an API first, microservice infrastructure.