Tips From Microsoft on Creating a Flourishing API Program feat. Balan Subramanian

This week on the API Intersection podcast, we chatted with Balan Subramanian, Partner Director of Product for Azure App Platform Services at Microsoft. At Microsoft, he leads the product team that works on the Azure app platform. This includes microservices frameworks such as Dapr, cloud services such as Azure API platform, Azure Logic Apps for integration, Azure Cache for Redis, Azure Spring Apps and a few other services. Additionally, Balan is responsible for ecosystem enablement for Azure developers–meaning he works with some of the well-known names in the developer community such as Elastic, Confluent, Redis, Nginx etc. and enables them to bring their SaaS to developers with Azure-native integrations. Balan provided a few insights on how Microsoft works to create an enticing partner environment, how they use the design-first approach internally, and how they help customers think of their APIs as products (even when they’re not monetized!). Do you have a question you'd like answered, or a topic you want to see in a future episode? Let us know here: stoplight.io/question/