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API management

API management is the supervision of tasks related to publishing, documenting and maintaining application programming interfaces (APIs) in a secure, scalable environment. The goal of API management is to allow an organization that publishes an API to monitor the interface's lifecycle and make sure the needs of developers and applications using the API are being met.

API management software tools typically:
 
Automate and control connections between an API and the applications that use it.
Ensure consistency between multiple API implementations and versions.
Monitor traffic from individual apps.
Provide memory management and caching mechanisms to improve application performance.
Protect the API from misuse by wrapping it in security procedures and policies.