Re:APIs are Eating Up Software
by kyleshockey on Tuesday December 17, 2013 @05:23PM
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This is true of the startup universe, but businesses at large will- for the foreseeable future- want software that just works. In the rest of the world, businesses that don't want to be technical are developing their own solutions because the solutions they're using now suck.
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In my line of work, biotech, API's are ideal for communication or some for exposed web services we can hammer into an API. Often times we are left to pass flat files around or have no hope of bidirectional communication between systems.