Can anyone explain why APIs, particularly RESTful ones are big industry now? being an old fart getting computers to talk and exchange data has always been just part of solving problems but now there are endless talks about lifecycle and managment and strategy. What is this all about? Last time i checked in it was about using software to solve problems. APIs were always involved but never front and center and their own concern as they seem to be today.
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I’m still not enlightened.
APIs are cool I guess
I think APIs became important once companies really had major scaling issues. You used to be able to house your own data center on premises. You can't do that anymore and as a result you need to figure out a way to properly scale your API which is more about infrastructure and less about DS and ALGOS imo
Probably because now APIs are not just something your team will use. They are something that will be used by others and there is a lot of thought that goes into it. There’s more to it than that, but at least that may be why you are noticing it, I’m pretty sure it used to be that “APIs” were just internal things that one maybe two teams would see and you could just ask around for how it worked.
Do you live under a rock?
Because there are new people seeing something for the first time and marketers that want to make a buck selling an already solved problem.
Actually REST is on its way out, and probably will gradually be replaced by grpc/http2 which of course is yet another way to create APIs
Think about how many people can benefit from driving a car but can’t fix/build one
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An API is more than just REStful web services..APIs are literally the bread and butter of all programming..not sure if this is a troll
So like more bread and butter than algorithms, data structures, RPCs ...
Yes, literally more bread and butter than all of that