REST APIs: Yesterday’s Darling; Today’s Partner For Event Streams

Organizations expanding their API programs to encompass both REST and event streams have suffered from the lagging support of API management vendors for asynchronous events. But the need for this grows. Recent changes in the API management vendor market are starting to address this need and will accelerate the ability of API organizations to adopt the event-driven architecture (EDA) model. This report explains what the trend of REST-plus-EDA unification is, why broader adoption has been stymied, what buyers want, and how Forrester expects the market to evolve in the near future.