# API Management Is Getting More Modular And Composable

**Canonical:** https://apievangelist.com/2017/02/09/api-management-is-getting-more-modular-and-composable/

I've been keeping an eye on the [API management](http://management.apievangelist.com/) space for about seven years now, and I actually have to say, even with all the acquisitions, IPOs, commoditization, etc, I am actually pretty happy with where the sector has evolved. API management always resembled its older cousin the API gateway for me, so [when companies like 3Scale](http://apis.how/ake3nxbapm) started offering a freemium model, that I could deploy in the cloud with a couple lines of code