during the first day of <a href="https://apiworld.co/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">API World 2019</a> (Oct 8-10, 2019, San Jose Convention Center), the world’s largest API &amp; Microservices conference &amp; expo -- the largest event for the API economy -- in its 8th year, with over 3,500 attendees.</p><p><img loading="lazy" alt="2019 API Awards - Middleware" src="/blog/assets/images/API-Middleware-0f7f8d6d53739fb220a3443dda364cdb.jpg" width="3333" height="1667" class="img_ev3q"></p><p>The 