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 ...

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APIs are application programming interfaces. They are pieces of software that act as a bridge between one application and another application, piece of hardware or database of information, for example ...

“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 ...

You might not realize it, but you probably use APIs every day, whether you’re checking the weather forecast on your phone or managing the financial lives of your clients. And you’re about to use them ...

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 ...

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The University of California San Francisco, Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, the California Health Care Foundation and ScaleHealth developed a survey to learn ...

As more and more journalists are finding, APIs are a great way to get data for your Web applications and projects. An API, or application programming interface, enables software programs to ...