Slack, the communication platform for companies, integrates different services into a single messaging application, all thanks to its API. Any developer can use it to create a bot that responds to the user’s requests by means of a chat. It already has an army of these small programs and the family continues to grow.
Joaquín Engelmo, testing developer at Tuenti and event organizer at theEvnt, tells us of the importance of testing for companies. He also talks about how testing and APIs are interrelated, and of the challenges he faces in his work as developer.
The cultural sector has not been slow to join the world of APIs to improve performance, create synergies and offer new services to users. We review several successful examples of the use of APIs in this field.
Although practice is the best school, another aid for developing APIs is the Internet, which offers all kinds of information for those interested in the more technical aspects of this world. Here's a small selection of the most interesting websites to learn and keep up to date in the world of APIs.
Open banking is transforming the way we understand finance. This revolution is opening the door to a world of collaboration and opportunities, generating value for customers and new business models. "Open banking is going to improve people's lives. Their digital lives as well as those that are not so digital," Ricardo Segoviano, Head of BBVA API Market, recently explained.
Amazon (cloud services), eBay (eCommerce), Square (mobile payments) and BBVA (bank) all have application programming interfaces for sending notifications, each one with their own outlook, market and goals.
The benefits of using APIs are increasingly being felt across all sectors, including healthcare. One example is the University Hospital of Liège, Belgium, which has managed to be more efficient thanks to a simple visualization generated by IBM’s Watson Analytics, an API that offers a predictive data analysis service.
Tourism is a highly innovative sector, and APIs are the perfect allies for improving the customer experience for different types of travelers. Below are some examples and success stories involving APIs in the world of travel.
The quartet of major technology companies GAFA (Google, Amazon, Facebook and Apple) are looking for solutions and launching platforms to take over the mobile payments industry: Android Pay, Apple Pay, Facebook Messenger and payments using selfies on Amazon.
Any human activity has always required a focus, a way of capturing the approach or vision that condenses the purpose of the action: making sufficient fire to provide heat but not so much that it leaves the group without reserves of wood; designing an app that performs its main function but remains easy to use.
