“API” is an acronym for application programming interface, a set of protocols that allows two software programs to communicate. APIs are used to power web applications and integrate different software ...

Today, the term “industrialized” not only refers to the level of automation in a manufacturing process, but also the extent to which an entire value chain has been digitized. The B2B ecosystem is the ...

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The modern use of APIs sparked a totally new way of communicating that enabled an era of sharing and spawned the interconnected world that we live in today. Between 2000 and 2002, online commerce and ...

APIs power everything from internal systems to customer-facing products, but managing them at scale is no longer ...

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The volume of data is increasing exponentially, making it more difficult to make use of it all. But this ever-increasing abundance of information creates a huge opportunity for businesses to better ...

A Web API is an online “application programming interface” that allows developers to interact with external services. These are the commands that the developer of the service has determined will be ...

How do you explain web APIs to the business? Here's an analogy not-so-tech-savvy businesspeople could probably relate to: using APIs are like creating music. That's the interesting comparison drawn by ...

Take advantage of an API gateway to provide a single point of entry to your back-end services and keep your services secure. YARP makes it easy. An API gateway provides a mechanism through which the ...