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Can we please, pretty please with a cherry on top invent a new word for "public-facing official API that exposes some of a company's core services"? Because I
by brazzy 14y ago
Can we please, pretty please with a cherry on top invent a new word for "public-facing official API that exposes some of a company's core services"?
Because I get annoyed every time someone uses "APIs" to make general statements while assuming that specific narrow meaning.
- johns 14y agoI think that ship has sailed.
- wallflower 14y agoI always liked the term 'Business Objects' - but that has always been co-opted by a company (SAP). So hard to invent catchy new terms... Trying here but they all sound like business buzzwords... Business Proxy, Business Delegate, Business Front, Business Agent, Company Blackbox, Business Interface, Company Platform, Company Rube Goldberg, Company Socket, Partner Interface?
- tod222 14y agoOkay, how about SPI, Service Programming Interface?
- brazzy 14y agoI'd be happy with that. Now to get people to use it...
- kiriappeee 14y agoPAPI?