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Do you mean RESTful and RPC-based APIs peak has past? Because in the backend, everyone's still using and building those, it's just the way they're advertising and mainly doing integration is event-based (which sometimes is actually just RPC wrapped in a long-polling mechanism).

Or do you not see event-based architectures as APIs?

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Sorry, let me try to be more clear. I believe people are exploring ways to move beyond and no longer have the need for APIs. Webhooks and event architectures are, I believe, stepping stones towards that goal.

That is instead of an architecture that relies on multiple APIs to interact in near real-time. I believe the direction is fewer services that interact with each other asynchronously. And their coordination will be by a Kafka type event log.

I agree, once we've removed the functional, silo'd data stores that have currently been built as services and we migrate from proprietary or silo'd service to centralised event-log we've.. Come full circle and arrived at fucking event bus' from the 80s. Sounds like SOA on MQ.

Looks like we are saying the same thing :)

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