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The phrase “business operations” covers a lot of bases in the business world, but fundamentally it refers to the activities that you and all your coworkers do every day to keep your company running ...

“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 ...

The volume of data is increasing exponentially, making it more difficult to make use of it all. But this ever-increasing abundance of information creates a huge opportunity for businesses to better ...

While you were getting your coffee, Java application development changed–again. In a world driven by rapid change and innovation, it’s ironic that APIs are making a comeback. Like the coding ...

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Think about all you’ve done today online. Maybe you streamed music, purchased clothes or paid for parking on your phone. Whatever you’ve done, there’s a good chance application programming interfaces ...

Meet Bump, a French software-as-a-service startup that wants to help you maintain and use APIs across your organization. The company automatically generates documentation for your APIs so that other ...

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 ...

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, ...