This document discusses the growing importance of APIs and microservices architectures to support disaggregated applications and cloud-native technologies. It notes that APIs have become the fundamental way that digital services are built and consumed, serving as the "glue" between independent systems. A new programming language called Ballerina is introduced for developing APIs in a cloud-native way using cells, which are proposed as the basic building blocks for composing independent but interoperable microservices into larger applications and enterprises.