The system that provides data or services that the application needs, say YouTube, is like the electrical grid. The API, in this example the YouTube Player API, is like the standard electrical outlet ...

Now ubiquitous fintechs Stripe and PayPal are excellent examples—almost all of their first customers were via partner APIs, but those first customers were partners that didn’t necessarily want ...

The browser is a provider that offers web browsing capabilities that the JavaScript program accesses via a programming interface, the browser’s API. For example, if you type F12 right now and ...

Some brokers also provide libraries in various languages to make interaction with their API easier. For example, a broker may offer a Python library that provides a set of functions, or methods ...

Stackhawk’s shift-left approach emphasizes testing for security vulnerabilities during development, rather than waiting until ...

If the user is not willing to make the investment of time, attention and support costs, then your API is not worth much.” But there are examples of extremely valuable APIs out there, he notes ...

The example code in the previous section returns ... data should look has advantages aside from being consistent across APIs and implementations. As API evangelist Phil Sturgeon noted in his ...