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 ...

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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 ...

API security often involves third-party, rather than first-party, APIs, and each use case can have different requirements. Rather than trying to make one technological approach work for all instances, ...

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 ...

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 ...

I first learned about the C# compiler as a service workings way back in 2008 at PDC. At that time, Anders Hejlsberg gave a brief preview of what was to come by showing off a C# ...

Less than a year after raising $25M led by Microsoft for its take on building API marketplaces, RapidAPI has rapidly followed that up with another infusion of capital as it reaches 20,000 APIs tracked ...