BBVA API Market
Technology has permeated into every aspect of everyday life, both at work and in our personal lives. Perhaps you look at your tablet first thing in the morning to check the news, have a coffee brewed by your latest generation coffee machine, head to work in a car that would impress even Michael Knight from Knight Rider, and so on throughout the day. In fact, there is practically nothing that we do on a daily basis that is not underpinned by some kind of technology. However, do you know how many of these activities also conceal an underlying API?
Programming interfaces make life so much easier for programmers and developers, and for you too. Below is a list of things that you may be surprised to find out have an API running under the hood:
These are just a few everyday examples of activities underpinned by hidden programming interfaces, but many more ordinary objects also operate thanks to APIs. Smart Cities likewise benefit from them.
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Taking a customer through the entire buying process until it is formalized is an arduous journey and one that faces the constant possibility of the customer leaving. However, there are ways to make the buying decision happen if you are given facilities such as agile, secure financing.
In a connected world, APIs are the glue that keeps all the parts that form our day-to-day lives in place. The same way the power of glue depends on the material it is used on and the knowledge of its properties, APIs are only as useful as their documentation allows for.
There are different solutions to monitor the performance of an API, in terms of traffic, quality and speed of the answers it provides. Detecting faults in the code or quantifying the generated revenues are also some of the options offered by these useful tools.
