E365 - API Composition: The Architecture Behind Modern Apps
Published: August 20, 2026
Duration: 25:15
Every seamless app screen hides a surprisingly complex network of services working together behind the scenes.
In this episode of techaily.ai, David and Sophia explore API composition—the architectural techniques developers use to combine fragmented data from independent microservices into a fast, cohesive user experience.
The conversation starts with client-side composition and why asking a mobile app to communicate directly with multiple backend services can quickly create latency, overfetching, underfetching, and a frustrating user experience.
From there, the episode explores the major patterns used to solve those problems:
How API gateways cent...