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How to Access Sensitive and Regulated Data Through Microservices and APIs

We’re seeing more businesses utilize microservices, service meshes and APIs to break down large, static applications and merge legacy systems with modern IT platforms. These agile and flexible application structures have changed the way we exchange data and are typically the method of choice when sharing data with external parties.

Microservices architecture is ideal for developing and updating mobile applications because it can simplify data sharing. In fact, according to recent research from Advanced Market Analytics “mobility and app proliferation is the primary factor augmenting the demand for API management” and they also point out “API security issues” as a potential constraint to growth. 

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Looking at Microservices Through a Macro Lens

Traditionally, enterprises relied on a unified model for designing a software application. Here, key capabilities for managing input/output processing, error-handling, and UI are packaged into one monolithic process. In such a structure, all the application components are interconnected and interdependent.

Such a structure, however, limited the scope for an application to expand and scale. This is when microservices came into the picture. Here, a single monolithic system is broken down into a set of smaller services, carrying out a functionality in a distributed manner. Its loosely coupled structure enabled enterprises to add or iterate any component of an application independently. This gave scope for scaling and expansion at a much faster rate.