Part 1:The API Landscape
Before diving into the details of what API products are and how to build them, you will need to first look at the market landscape of API products to understand the products and services that exist in this space.
The history of the web-based APIs we know today can be traced back to the late 1990s when Salesforce launched a web-based sales automation tool. This application marks the beginning of the Software as a Service (SaaS) revolution. The World Wide Web has strengthened the underlying infrastructure that enables this newly discovered way of delivering software. Before the World Wide Web and the internet, APIs existed. Still, they were a form of proprietary protocol that supported small, distributed computer networks ...
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