Will you be surprised if I tell you that we are living in an API centric world?
Surprising right! APIs in present scenario are a part of our everyday life and we might not even realize it. So why even waste our time, let us immediately dive into this article to know everything about API. Shall we?
API is the acronym for Application Programming Interface, which is a software intermediary that allows two applications to talk to each other.
Let us understand this technical definition with a very simple example , suppose you are hungry and you need something to eat, you could either go to the grocery store, buy the essentials and then cook it yourself or you could order food from any restaurant which is much more easy for lazy people like us.
Chefs would already have all the required resources, but they don’t want you to access all their stuff for safety purposes and that is exactly where an intermediate is needed to provide allowed services from one end to other and this is exactly called as Application Programming Interface.
APIs are needed to bring applications together in order to perform a designed function built around sharing data and executing pre-defined processes . You will be surprised to know few of the very popular APIs are Twitter, Google Maps, PayPal etc. Every time you sign up on different sites using Google or Facebook you are using an API.
Currently, there are hundreds of APIs for finance, social messaging, payments, e-commerce, Bitcoin, and multiple other categories. Interestingly, the fastest-growing category of APIs over the past five years is for the sharing and analyzing of data.
So in short to sum up and give an extract of the article APIs are the interfaces that connect applications together, allowing them to communicate with one another.
Video Explanation
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