Do you know what an API is and how it is/will be transforming technology? To learn about APIs, read on. 🙂
According to software giant CA Technologies:
“Think about what you can do today that you could not 15 years ago. Hail a ride or start your car from a smartphone. Find a restaurant from your tablet. Monitor your fitness from a device on your wrist. Check availability of a product and order it from the nearest store anytime, anywhere. Or what businesses are doing that they could not in 2000. Expose petabytes of data from legacy systems. Build new applications without reinventing the wheel. Share information instantly with customers, suppliers and partners. Develop. Monetize. In record time.”
“There’s something at work behind the scenes that’s powering the new economy, the App Economy. It’s greasing the exchange of information, a modern-day Rosetta Stone. It’s called the Application Programming Interface.”
For an interactive, informative, and entertaining view of APIs, click on the image and scroll down CA Technologies‘ animated chart. Then, take a look at the video below the image.
I didn’t realize how much went into creating apps that we use on a daily basis. API’s have really shape the new way we use technology. In hospitals and medical centers we see an abundance of new apps and technology that doctors are using. The apps can help further our knowledge and can give us information very fast which I find is very helpful.