Azure API Management with Tom Kerkhove
API Management has evolved! Carl and Richard talk to Tom Kerkhove about his new role working on Azure API Management. Tom talks about using Azure Arc to deploy the API Management service into your on-premises services. The conversation digs into more of the fundamentals around API management with rate limiting, authentication and authorization, billing, testing, and more. A good API can make your company money - executed poorly and it's a massive headache. Use the tools available to make it easier!
Guests:
Tom Kerkhove
Tom Kerkhove is a Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft working on Azure API Management, leading Azure API Management's future to allow customers to build API ecosystems in a hybrid and multi-cloud landscape with its self-hosted gateway and Azure Arc. He has been working in the cloud-native space for 5+ years and has been a CNCF Ambassador since 2020. Autoscaling is in his DNA and is one of the active maintainers of Kubernetes Event-Driven Autoscaling (KEDA), a CNCF Incubation project that makes application autoscaling on Kubernetes dead simple. It is scaling big enterprises such as Zapier, Reddit, FedEx, Alibaba Cloud, and many others.
Links:
- bflat https://flattened.net/
- Azure API Management https://azure.microsoft.com/products/api-management
- Azure Arc https://azure.microsoft.com/products/azure-arc/
- Helm for Kubernetes https://helm.sh/
- Azure Monitor https://azure.microsoft.com/products/monitor/
- OpenTelemetry https://opentelemetry.io/
- Prometheus https://prometheus.io/
- Dapr https://dapr.io/
- Azure Kubernetes Service https://azure.microsoft.com/products/kubernetes-service/
- Azure Container Apps https://azure.microsoft.com/products/container-apps/
- Azure Arc Jumpstart https://azurearcjumpstart.io/
- Microsoft Entra https://www.microsoft.com/security/business/microsoft-entra
- gRPC Support in Azure App Service https://azure.microsoft.com/updates/public-preview-grpc-support-in-azure-app-service/
- Azure Load Testing https://azure.microsoft.com/products/load-testing/