Application programming interface: Difference between revisions
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
Amwelladmin (talk | contribs) No edit summary |
Amwelladmin (talk | contribs) No edit summary |
||
| Line 1: | Line 1: | ||
{{a|tech|}}An [[application programming interface]] or [[API]] is that little gobbet of [[code]] that lets you hook one software application, database, etc, with another. Especially useful when importing and exporting data. So if you’re in SharePoint and you want to look up into the client static data system, which is operating on a steam-powered mainframe designed by Charles Babbage, what you will need is an [[API]] (but save your breath: one won’t exist and it will take the [[IT department]], by their own self-interested assessment, 600 person hours to create one). | {{a|tech|}}An [[application programming interface]] or [[API]] is that little gobbet of [[code]] that lets you hook one software application, database, etc, with another. Especially useful when importing and exporting data. So if you’re in SharePoint and you want to look up into the client static data system, which is operating on a steam-powered mainframe designed by Charles Babbage, what you will need is an [[API]] (but save your breath: one won’t exist and it will take the [[IT department]], by their own self-interested assessment, 600 person hours to create one). | ||
[[Bezos memo|Jeff Bezos]] famously insisted on one long across his whole organisation, on pain of instant dismissal, long before they were fashionable, and the rest is history. | |||
{{sa}} | {{sa}} | ||
*The [[Bezos memo]] | |||
*[[End-to-end principle]] | |||
*[[Smart contract]] | *[[Smart contract]] | ||
*[[Code: Version 2.0 - Book Review]] | *[[Code: Version 2.0 - Book Review]] | ||
Revision as of 08:58, 6 October 2021
|
JC pontificates about technology
An occasional series.
|
An application programming interface or API is that little gobbet of code that lets you hook one software application, database, etc, with another. Especially useful when importing and exporting data. So if you’re in SharePoint and you want to look up into the client static data system, which is operating on a steam-powered mainframe designed by Charles Babbage, what you will need is an API (but save your breath: one won’t exist and it will take the IT department, by their own self-interested assessment, 600 person hours to create one).
Jeff Bezos famously insisted on one long across his whole organisation, on pain of instant dismissal, long before they were fashionable, and the rest is history.