System and method for improving API management, governance, and security utilizing federated schemas and adaptive swarm intelligence

A method, comprising:

• receiving, by a single federated gateway, and from a computing device, a request to execute an interaction with a software application to satisfy the request, wherein the software application is associated with a plurality of application programming interfaces (APIs), wherein each of the plurality of APIs comprises a set of independent software services configured to fetch and process user data, and wherein the single federated gateway includes a schema of each of the plurality of APIs and the respective set of independent software services associated therewith;
• partitioning the request into at least a first subsidiary request and a second subsidiary request based on a content of the request;
• routing the first subsidiary request to a first API and first set of independent software services and the second subsidiary request to a second API and second set of independent software services, wherein the first API and first set of independent software services is configured to fetch and transfer to the single federated gateway a first subset of data responsive to the first subsidiary request, and wherein the second API and second set of independent software services is configured to fetch and transfer to the single federated gateway a second subset of data responsive to the second subsidiary request;
• receiving, by the single federated gateway, and from the first API and first set of independent software services and the second API and second set of independent software services, the first subset of data and the second subset of data;
• generating, based at least in part on the first subset of data and the second set of data, a response to the request to execute the interaction with the software application;
• and
• in response to the execution of the interaction with the software application, providing to the computing device the response.

A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing instructions that, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to:

• receive, by a single federated gateway, and from a computing device, a request to execute an interaction with a software application to satisfy the request, wherein the software application is associated with a plurality of application programming interfaces (APIs), wherein each of the plurality of APIs comprises a set of independent software services configured to fetch and process user data, and wherein the single federated gateway includes a schema of each of the plurality of APIs and the respective set of independent software services associated therewith;
• partition the request into at least a first subsidiary request and a second subsidiary request based on a content of the request;
• route the first subsidiary request to a first API and first set of independent software services and the second subsidiary request to a second API and second set of independent software services, wherein the first API and first set of independent software services is configured to fetch and transfer to the single federated gateway a first subset of data responsive to the first subsidiary request, and wherein the second API and second set of independent software services is configured to fetch and transfer to the single federated gateway a second subset of data responsive to the second subsidiary request;
• receive, by the single federated gateway, and from the first API and first set of independent software services and the second API and second set of independent software services, the first subset of data and the second subset of data;
• generate, based at least in part on the first subset of data and the second set of data, a response to the request to execute the interaction with the software application;
• and
• in response to the execution of the interaction with the software application, provide to the computing device the response.