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Editor's note: Today we hear from Brad Plothow and Mihir Sambhus from Womply, a software-as-a-service company that makes CRM, email marketing, and reputation management software for small businesses. The company recently developed APIs to help small businesses use data to gain a clearer picture of their markets—and how to compete in them.

Infrastructure as Code (IaC) is a powerful process – replacing manual, error prone and expensive operations with automated, consistent and quick provisioning of resources. In many cases, IaC is dependent on existing infrastructure, typically including a configuration management system. Chef, Puppet and SaltStack are all commonly referenced players in this market, each requiring resources to be in place and having their own difficulties in setup and maintenance.

AWS Lambda is a serverless compute service that runs your code in response to events and automatically manages the underlying compute resources for you. Amazon API Gateway is a managed service that allows developers to define the HTTP endpoints of a REST API and connect those endpoints with the corresponding backend business logic.

With the explosion of cloud services, microservices – and the increasing demands of digital transformation – enterprises are adding and removing business applications at a breakneck pace. Most large businesses are juggling an average of 788 custom business applications, and the number is growing.

API product management is a new role both start ups and enterprises alike are looking to fill in order to build and manage a new API platform. How do you identify and hire rock-stars? Given APIs are very developer-centric, you should not just aim to find the best PMs out there, but identify those passionate about APIs and helping developers. In no particular order, here is our list of API PM interview questions.