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 ...

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 ...

A behind-the-scenes blog about research methods at Pew Research Center. For our latest findings, visit pewresearch.org. Many researchers are interested in obtaining new kinds of data directly from ...

REST is an acronym for Representational State Transfer, an architectural style that has become extremely popular over the past few years. A RESTful API is one that it is built in accordance with the ...

Application programming interfaces, or “APIs,” have become a critical part of ecommerce, and retailers are increasingly finding new and creative ways to use APIs to enhance their offerings and their ...

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 ...

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Something I know I need to know and understand more about are APIs, so I follow Kin Lane (aka The API Evangelist One of those tools is Zapier, which is sort of like If This, Then That except that it ...

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 ...

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 ...