Application programming interfaces aid communication between softwares: whether they be apps, internet platforms or operating systems. They act as an open window that allows a tool to use services from another one, but what are they based on and how do they work?
In this ebook you will find everything you need to know about APIs. The features that make them essential, the kind of available APIs, the REST API systems and the tools needed for their development.
The characteristics of this repository hosting platform have made it the favourite tool for API creators and for developers in general.
The app by Niantic and Nintendo has revolutionized planet Earth, and has several key features: gamification and the use of rewards, the revival of Pokémon as a commercial hook, the connection between the virtual and real world and the launch of an API.
In the future, banks may be the ones to provide verified digital customer identities, even though they are not responsible for monitoring or managing their personal data. This service will bring them income from third-party providers.
This open source distributed computing platform includes some interesting improvements for the community: it has become 10 times faster than Spark 16 and comes with a unified API for the development of multi-purpose applications that work with real time data as well as with batches and interactive queries.
Data management, transactions with financial products, fraud control, scalability of services and platforms or increased satisfaction and retention of financial staff are some of the tasks performed by software in a bank.
Banks must adapt to the new scenario of consuming information and services in the mobile era: smartphones and smart watches, tablets, etc. Mobile banking and mobile payments are the markets that will condition all activity in the new legal framework.
Financial APIs are transforming the banking ecosystem. Their implementation improves the productivity and efficiency of the new financial services, enriches the customers' experience and helps generate dynamic ecosystems.
It is not an easy task to innovate in the digital era. Once market movements have been identified, companies have to be brave enough to initiate transformation actions that at times cannibalize their own main business.
