Security News > 2020 > May > Growth of APIs for new services

All the things we have come to expect from a modern Internet service now depend on open computing and APIs.

More recently, API usage has seen even greater exponential growth driven by several factors - the first of which is the ubiquitous mobile device.

His PhD thesis, unlike most such works, includes arguably the first meaningful description of what we would now refer to as an API. Specifically, "Architectural Styles and the Design of Network-Based Software Architectures" ushered in a new era of programming style for the web, using a technique referred to as Representational State Transfer or REST. The specific details of REST APIs are beyond the scope of this short summary, but we can outline some of the more salient constraints that help define this uniform set of software connector interfaces.

The most central design constraint of REST APIs is the uniformity of the interfaces that is inherent in the overall design.

They quickly saw that APIs not only made their interfaces more standard, but made the services they provided to the external community much more accessible and more popular.

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