The bitcoin-related services offered by CoinDesk, Bitpay and Coinbase include APIs for external developers to develop apps and financial products aimed at performing transactions and obtaining share prices.
The Technology Strategist at Microsoft, Pablo Junco, stresses the benefits of APIs and explains how Blockchain technology acts as a notary during transactions by removing the role of intermediary, and how it allows banks to get to know their customers better.
Wordpress is almost certainly the most widely used content management system on the market. There are numerous plugins available today that allow payment of products in bitcoins on websites with online stores developed in this CMS.
At WWDC 16, the Apple developer conference, the company introduced a new package of APIs that provide new features to products such as Siri, Maps, messaging and calls.
Companies are implementing increasingly more APIs because they contribute a differential value to any sector. Architects are essential for the process of creating an API, as they are responsible for contributing a clear focus with respect to business objectives.
José Manuel de la Chica, New Business Digital at BBVA, highlights the value of the APIs in the digital transformation of banks and traditional businesses. The bank take part to open its APIs to third parties to create value and open new business opportunities.
4andgo appeared in 2011 when its promoters Alejandro and José Luis were working for another company in developing mobile apps and looked for a change. They have been winners of the first edition of BBVA InnovaChallenge in the category of business solutions.
APIs have become the new essential tool for most development and business equipment (DevOps). In the short-term future, it is expected that APIs become universal, turn banks into platforms and give microservices an extra boost.
The developer community always looks at four essential features to rate the quality of an API: it must be useful and easy to understand, stable when making improvements, and it has to be secure and provide good documentation.
Google's new mobile operating system for smartphones and tablets includes some significant changes for application developers: multi-window mode, changes to Doze and notifications, screen zoom, etc. These are key.
