One prompt, API calls: rebuilding the monday.com API edge for AI Agents (engineering.monday.com)

monday.com has significantly revamped its API edge to support AI agents, ultimately achieving a remarkable increase in performance. By redesigning the API architecture, the company has enabled the edge to handle 2.5 times more traffic while reducing CPU usage by 92% and memory consumption by 80%. The previous system struggled under growing traffic demands, processing up to 2.5 billion requests weekly, and suffered from latency issues. The new design features a two-layer system: a gateway for authentication and authorization that efficiently handles requests before routing, and a streamlined router using WunderGraph Cosmo for executing GraphQL queries. This upgrade is particularly crucial for the AI/ML community as it prepares monday.com to handle a future where AI tools and agents are predominant in workspaces. The enhancements mean that AI agents can operate with drastically improved efficiency, requiring fewer resources while making numerous API calls quickly and seamlessly. The successful transition allows monday.com to be effectively positioned as a robust, AI-ready platform, catering to evolving demands in task automation and management, while ensuring minimal disruptions to users during the upgrade process.