Google to acquire Apigee

Google didn&#x27;t pay for the technology. Apigee has a good set of big enterprise customers that Google was missing on their cloud platform. As others mentioned, Google already have the tech: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cloud.google.com&#x2F;endpoints&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cloud.google.com&#x2F;endpoints&#x2F;</a>

2018: Support is discontinued. Please use our forums where intelligent bots will reply you.<p>2020: We are now discontinuing Apigee.

I misread that as &quot;to acquire Apple&quot;. Then I misread that again as &quot;to acquire Apogee&quot; (as in, the name 3D Realms went by from 1987 to 1996).<p>Now I&#x27;m wondering behind the reasoning of the Apigee brand. Was it an intentional play on Apogee Software of the 80s&#x2F;90s? If so, why? Something about &quot;playing with APIs&quot; I presume, but that seems confusing.

Apigee is a pretty decent product if you are in the space. It&#x27;s sort of kinda like a &quot;CDN for APIs&quot;, if that make sense, which I&#x27;ve always thought is a great idea.<p>(Yes, I realize my analogy has limits. Don&#x27;t get too hung up on it though)<p>I didn&#x27;t realize they were a public company though.

I think this is an excellent acquisition by Google, specifically for their cloud platform. It provides an excellent solution to the problem of managing apis and a tight integration with cloud platform will really make it stand out.

These various &quot;API management&quot; services have always struck me as value subtracting as much as value adding. Adding another moving part to a system doesn&#x27;t make it more reliable.<p>One thing that has amazed me is that most of these services offer everything but the kitchen sink AND the one thing you need for a minimum viable product, which is the ability to charge for API calls.

What a bizarre acquisition. They say:<p>&gt; <i>A good API needs to [...] give developers the freedom to work in the development environment of their choice [...] a good API includes testing support</i><p>Those are two of the main reasons <i>not</i> to use Apigee.

3Scale got acquired by IBM, and now APIGEE by google. Time to buy Layer7 shares?<p>API Gateways are big deal in API first initiatives.

They announced this a couple of weeks ago... im confused: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cloud.google.com&#x2F;endpoints&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cloud.google.com&#x2F;endpoints&#x2F;</a>

Well. At first I thought this was crazy, but then I realized Google was the only major cloud provider that didn&#x27;t offer an API Gateway service... Azure and AWS both have one.<p>So, makes sense. They got them cheap as well, only a really small premium of the stock price.

Never understood Apigee&#x27;s core product. I like their whitebooks though. quite informative. So congratulations.

Is it just me, or should API management be done through GraphQL? It doesn&#x27;t seem like Apigee even uses GraphQL (unless I missed something on their website). Been looking at GraphQL recently, and it looks like it could be a solution. Any experience on using GraphQL in a prod environment?<p>EDIT: I think Apigee has a great product, not wanting to put them down.

&gt; As always, we&#x27;ll make sure that these capabilities are available in the public clouds and can also be used on-premises.<p>Does that mean there&#x27;s a chance Apigee will get open sourced? (fingers crossed)

$625 million in cash

So does this mean Apigee will be the captive API gateway for Google&#x27;s extensive portfolio of APIs, or will the Apigee gateway still be offered as a product to put in front of a customer&#x27;s custom API?

Buying offer is 17.40. Right now Apigee&#x27;s trading at 17.42, short selling opportunity?

Apigee has a lot of smart engineers working on nodejs based open source projects and contributing to OpenApi spec (fka Swagger). Good to see that Chet K chose Google to acquire these talented engineers. And ofcourse the Apigee community is A++.

I first read this as &quot;Google to acquire Apple&quot; and I found myself wondering if today was in the month of April.

Aw man I bought a bunch of these shares last year at $7 and sold for $7.90 after a few months. I was happy about it. Wish I held onto them, it&#x27;s trading at $17 now!