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Weren't APIs the next big thing a decade or so back?
by spzb 7y ago
Weren't APIs the next big thing a decade or so back?
- tomnipotent 7y agoI think that was the web 2.0 "mashup" era while the current trend seems more focused on being "headless".
- eterm 7y agoYeah, there was definitely a trend a decade or so back when everyone was hyped for the fact they were releasing API access. Generally speaking, anything that took off slowly let those APIs die so they could make money for themselves instead of letting third parties capture value.
- wlesieutre 7y agoDid somebody say Twitter?
- nemothekid 7y agoYes - it feels like the wave has passed, or rather is in full effect. Twilio, Stripe, Lob are all relatively large companies now.
- pjmlp 7y agoYes, that was even part of the big marketing wave from .NET, SOAP, WSDL repository servers, BPEL and BizTalk.