At its most basic, an application programming interface (API) is a hidden link that facilitates communication between software systems, enabling information exchange among applications, services and ...

Instagram is quietly building out software tools to help brands manage their direct messages with the app's users. The Facebook-owned photo-sharing app is building an API (application programming ...

When developers are building software with API access, they need to figure out how to bill users fairly for hitting the API gateway. A flat fee probably wouldn’t cover the heavy users and would be ...

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Postman, the world’s leading API Platform, today announced the general availability of Postman Flows, a visual tool for creating API applications. Postman Flows ...

Building an API is a surprisingly attainable goal, even if it might seem tricky to total novices. To get you started, here are a few steps to follow which could lead to great things. API basics Before ...

At its developer conference, OpenAI announced a new API, the Assistants API, that it characterizes as a step toward helping developers build “agent-like experiences” within their apps. Using the ...

An API Gateway is a layer in an architecture pattern that allows the business API to focus on the business functionality while taking care of the request dispatching, policy enforcement, protocol ...

Today's businesses run on software, which must interoperate with myriad other software platforms. But how can a business offer its valuable data and computing capabilities to countless potential users ...

Application program interfaces (APIs) are at the heart of today’s software-driven economy. APIs provide a digital bridge between software applications, making development and design easier and more ...