April News with Dev Accelerated: Cost Savings, APIs, K8s, & More

Discover April's top dev insights: cost-saving strategies, API trends, Kubernetes tips, and community buzz—plus, catch us at API Days NYC next month.

Bailey DeCamillis

April 16, 2025 | 5 min read

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Hot Topic: Hunting for that Cost Savings

This Spring, instead of hunting for eggs, we're hunting for hidden costs in our code and infrastructure. Let’s crack open some insights on how to streamline your development efforts and keep our cloud spending sunny-side up.

The best eggs aren’t in plain sight — and neither are the best cost-saving strategies. This month, we’re spotlighting ways to optimize dev and infra without breaking the bank.

Read on for the latest and greatest insights across the development community. Oh, and we’ll be at API Days New York next month. Stop by our booth to say, “hi.” (Mention the newsletter and we’ll hook you up with the good swag!)

Hot Topic: Hunting for that Cost Savings

Many engineering leaders are turning a sharp eye toward cloud costs and overall development spending as economic uncertainty, and budget pressures persist into Q2 of 2025. With cloud bills quietly ballooning from underused resources, over-provisioned environments, and sprawling infrastructure, leaders are seeking ways to optimize spending without sacrificing velocity. For development teams, this means greater scrutiny on tooling, compute usage, and productivity and shifting the focus to more cost-efficient workflows and automation that can rein in expenses while still empowering teams to build and ship effectively.

In the Community

Right now, in April, the API community is buzzing around AI-native APIs, API governance, and improving dev experience as API complexity scales. There's growing momentum behind tools that help teams manage sprawling microservice ecosystems more efficiently — think better observability, more secure gateways, and smarter documentation workflows. GraphQL continues to mature with a surge in federation adoption, while REST-first organizations are doubling down on performance and cost optimization. Oh, and everyone's watching how OpenAPI 3.1 and AsyncAPI are influencing multi-protocol design — not just HTTP.

Kubernetes Corner

The K8s ecosystem continues to evolve rapidly, with several key trends shaping its trajectory (Did anyone recently attend last month’s KubeCon?). AI-driven automation is increasingly integrated into Kubernetes operations, enhancing observability, security, and incident response through real-time anomaly detection and performance analysis. Managed Kubernetes services are gaining popularity, simplifying cluster management and reducing the operational burden on development teams. Security remains a critical focus, with the adoption of Zero Trust Architecture and advanced encryption techniques to protect against sophisticated threats targeting Kubernetes environments.

That’s all for now, see you next month!

- The Dev Accelerated Newsletter

P.S. Stay tuned for a big feature release next month that will take API discovery to a new level, and don’t forget to check out the Blackbird Cluster, which now includes all of our previous Telepresence capabilities for local to remote development.