A walk through API economy trends in 2024

Here's my opening keynote presentation from last month's Nordic APIs Platform Summit 2024. In it, I take a stroll through some API economy trends from throughout the past year or so. I also talk way too much about walking. 🥾 

My presentation covers the rise in APIs across the board and how this is drilling down the need for more oversight in areas like governance, developer experience, and security. I also talk about the symbiotic relationship with AI — how it's producing more APIs but could also aid API design, management, and security.

The presentation focuses on some other trends that are pretty specific to the niche API culture, like what's happening lately in description languages, an interesting report on specification drift, and what the heck 'API management unbundling' means.

Anyways, it's a 30k ft view of the space, but hopefully gives a perspective on the current trends we're finding interesting. I think I only had a couple of stumbles along the trail. 😉

You can also read the accompanying blog post on Nordic APIs for more specific information and links.