Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about tech & finance. APIs (Application programming interfaces) have been around for decades. “They allow different ...

Google’s Container Engine, the system through which developers can easily create and manage clusters of software containers, is now generally available. Software containers are isolated environments ...

It's a good book. Parts of it are really drawn out and boring, though. Once I was comfortable with using the Win32 API, I stopped reading the book and just looked up things on MSDN or in that book to ...

A software tool used in software programming that abstracts all the programming steps into a user interface for the developer. An application programming interface (API) is a software tool used in ...

This article is published by AllBusiness.com, a partner of TIME. What are "APIs?" An API (Application Programming Interface) is a set of protocol routines, and tools for building software. APIs allow ...

Programming with APIs is a valuable enhancement to the software development lifecycle, in part because using APIs helps formalize our thinking about systems. As you’ve seen in this two-part article, ...

The language and message format that applications use to communicate with the operating system, other OS-related software (system software) and software-based platforms. This software-to-software ...

Security analysts warn of a sharp rise in API attacks over the past year, with most companies still following inadequate practices to tackle the problem. More specifically, Salt Security reports a ...

A new report from Salt Security Inc. out today has found that the amount of attack traffic targeting application programming interfaces is growing at triple the rate of regular API traffic, among ...

One of the most often overlooked cybersecurity attack vectors, and one of the biggest threats is application-programming interface (API) security. According to the security giant, Akamai, over 80% of ...