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Re:APIs will disrupt RPA. This is obvious to engineers by imajliv on Friday June 04, 2021 @05:08PM (#27399092)
APIs will surely be the way forward for new, larger scale solutions. However the number of legacy, written to be temporary but never replaced systems is just stunning and anything beyond manual data entry and shuffling is still like magic for _alot_ of business types, so I see the two co-existing for years and decades to come
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Re:APIs will disrupt RPA. This is obvious to engineers by hedora on Friday June 04, 2021 @06:03PM (#27399590)
Most APIs I’ve encountered expose stunning amounts of implementation details, and/or are less stable over time than the visual presentation.

Of course, there are counter-examples, but if there’s no strong business reason to make the API clean and stable over time, it’s unlikely to happen. Also, for many companies, there are strong financial motivations to obfuscate the API.

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