The API Server is the workhorse of runtime API execution. It processes the API requests, manages the logic that’s been defined, executes the underlying SQL statements and other callouts necessary to process the API, and implements all the optimization, pagination, etc.

The server is incredibly flexible when it comes to deployment options. It’s lightweight enough to be deployed as a WAR file to the application server environment of your choice, or it can be bundled and distributed as a VM appliance, Docker container, cloud instance, or just about any other deployment option you can imagine. It scales horizontally or vertically, so you can run thousands of transactions per second through hundreds of APIs on a single instance, or you can run a hundred instances deployed throughout your IT infrastructure as microservices to support individual consuming applications.

The server also provides a CLI for data browsing, a REST API for management and operations, and tools for logging, debugging and analytics. Everything is an API, including the backend for the API Creator and Data Explorer UIs themselves.