APIs and Microservices: What's the Difference?

Erik Wilde • December 7, 2021

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Welcome to "Getting APIs to Work", Erik Wilde's channel where he talks about APIs. Erik is a well-known author with many published papers and books, contributes to standardization activities, and has worked in various companies to help their customers and themselves on their API journeys. This channel features videos about various topics in the API space. Expect videos focused on technologies or tools, opinionated videos, updates from events in the API space, and interviews with practitioners and API experts.

APIs and Microservices: What's the Difference?

Erik Wilde

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