APIs have been behind every shift in the technological landscape during the last twenty years. Commerce and payments APIs. The social revolution was introduced by Facebook and Twitter APIs. Cloud computing APIs. Mobile APIs. Internet-connected devices APIs. Machine learning APIs. It is all APIs. If you are looking to be the one who defines the future of how business is conducted, you will need to be API-aware. You should care about APIs because it will play a role in defining almost every aspect of how you get business done in the next decade.
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- Expose Data - All teams will henceforth expose their data and functionality through service interfaces.
- No Direct Communication - There will be no other form of inter-process communication allowed: no directlinking, no direct reads of another team’s data store, no shared-memory model, and no back-doors whatsoever. The only communication allowed is via service interface calls over the network.
- Technology Use - It doesn’t matter what technology they use.
- No Exceptions - All service interfaces, without exception, must be designed from the ground up to be externalizable. That is to say, the team must plan and design to be able to expose the interface to developers in the outside world. No exceptions. null