An overview of an API as a service.
API’s is the latest buzz in the web development world nowadays. But for the regular person, what is it actually? API stands for “Application Programming Interface” and in spite of the long name, API as a service is actually designed to do something quite easy to enable programmers from the external web system to access any current website services. Take, for instance, Twitter! Twitter has an open API which enables web developers from all across the internet to create different ways to post messages to the Twitter social network. Web developers and programmers of independent blogs, ecommerce sites, news sites or anything else can utilize the Twitter API to develop almost anything you can think about Twitter posting. Just like sending photos, sharing videos, tracking retweets, and much more. These applications are able to do what they do as they link back to the Twitter through the Twitter API. Other popular instances of API comprise of eBay, Amazon.com, Facebook and G...