Developers use application programming interfaces to hide complexity, organize code, design reusable components, and connect different systems, applications, or services. The term API stands for ...

Top API security tools can help hold the line against modern threats to the important and ubiquitous software development interfaces. Application programming interfaces (APIs) have become a critical ...

Like many of you, I have been following Dalton Caldwell's proposal for the future of App.net . I think Dalton's idea is ambitious and applaud his transparency and candor. That said, it appears that ...

What are blockchain APIs, and why are they important? Blockchain APIs, or application programming interfaces, are software interfaces that allow developers to interact with a blockchain network. Users ...

The cybersecurity market is composed of dozens of niche segments designed to tackle organizations’ specific security challenges. As cybersecurity vendors most often operate in silos, the industry ...

The latest trends in software development from the Computer Weekly Application Developer Network. This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Nick Rago in his capacity as ...

In the world of API security, the words "attack" and "vulnerability" are often used interchangeably. But as the API threat landscape explodes — and security teams scramble to respond — it's more ...

Research In Motion Ltd. (RIM) is hoping to expand the types of applications developers can make for its BlackBerry handheld by adding APIs (application programming interfaces) to the BlackBerry Java ...

APIs are application programming interfaces. They are pieces of software that act as a bridge between one application and another application, piece of hardware or database of information, for example ...