DevOps Digest: 2026 DevOps Predictions – Part 7
Paul Ryan, Senior Director of Web Application Penetration Testing at NetSPI, contributed a prediction to DevOps Digest’s article forecasting that API growth is still in its early stages despite significant expansion in 2025. He expects continued growth driven by increasing demand for inter-connectivity between applications and data aggregation needs. Ryan emphasizes that AI systems, particularly generative and agentic AI, will require ever-increasing amounts of data and APIs to support their development and operation. Read the preview below or view it online.
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API GROWTH
In 2025, we saw dramatic growth of integrated systems and the underlying APIs that enable these connections. I suspect we are still on the initial “on-ramp” of API growth — whether that means further demand for inter-connectivity between applications in the traditional sense or further demand on exposed API structures to accelerate data aggregation. AI will continue to require ever-increasing amounts of data as well as APIs to support the waves of generative and agentic systems we can expect to see built from here on.
Paul Ryan
Senior Director of Web Application Penetration Testing, NetSPI
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