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It’s been almost five years since we heard that “software is eating the world.” The number of SaaS applications has exploded and there is a rising wave of software innovation in the area of APIs that provide critical connective tissue and increasingly important functionality. There has been a proliferation of third-party API companies, which is fundamentally changing the dynamics of how software is created and brought to market.
The application programming interface (API) has been a key part of software development for decades as a way to develop for a specific platform.
Read the complete article at The rise of APIs