How to build a modern API as self-contained API

API management is the process of designing, publishing, documenting, and analyzing APIs in a secure environment. It provides users — like developers and partners — the ability to access an API, governed by a set of configurable policies.
In this post, we will take a closer look at the benefits of using the basic endpoint approach to deploy a packaged API implementation along with a proxy as a self-contained application and examine the required steps for the API pairing within API Manager using the API autodiscovery concept.