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What an API can tell you about a product
- stcredzero 18y agoAn API will often give you an idea of how advanced or mature a product's architecture is. Does the API have any notion of objects? Can you imagine an OO system behind the API? An example from personal experience: Does a workflow engine require you to read database tables to integrate other software to their state information? (Red flag: How will encapsulation be enforced?)