Australian energy company Jemena has been using APIs, in some form, for about a decade. Its use of APIs — application programming interfaces — has jumped recently and is expected to increase fivefold ...

Google introduced the Knowledge Graph in 2012 to help searchers discover new information quicker. Essentially, users can search for places, people, companies, and products and find instant results ...

The 1.0 version of the Hypertext Transfer Protocol, issued way back in 1996, only defined three HTTP verbs: GET, POST and HEAD. The most commonly used HTTP method is GET. The purpose of the GET method ...

Developers use application programming interfaces to hide complexity, organize code, design reusable components, and connect different systems, applications, or services. The term API stands for ...

Much has been written about the rise of the API economy over the last 5+ years, and for good reason. According to a recent survey nearly 40% of large organizations use over 250 APIs, and 71% of ...

The modern use of APIs sparked a totally new way of communicating that enabled an era of sharing and spawned the interconnected world that we live in today. Between 2000 and 2002, online commerce and ...

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