Riding and Thriving on the API Hype Cycle.

The authors reflect on challenges encountered by enterprises in investing on application programming interface (API) ecosystems. Topics covered include the evolution of the service-oriented architecture (SOA) concept into Web-friendly technologies, API availability according to the free online API r...

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Publicado en:	Communications of the ACM Vol. 59; no. 3; pp. 35 - 38
Autores principales:	Vukovic, Maja, Laredo, Jim, Muthusamy, Vinod, Slominski, Aleksander, Vaculin, Roman, Wei Tan, Naik, Vijay, Silva-Lepe, Ignacio, Kumar, Arun, Srivastava, Biplav, Branch, Joel W.
Formato:	Opinion
Publicado:	Association for Computing Machinery Mar2016
Materias:	Application program interfaces Service-oriented architecture (Computer science) Technology Computer software Computer science
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Sumario:	The authors reflect on challenges encountered by enterprises in investing on application programming interface (API) ecosystems. Topics covered include the evolution of the service-oriented architecture (SOA) concept into Web-friendly technologies, API availability according to the free online API registry called ProgrammableWeb and identified factors that made API ecosystems successful. They discuss abundance of API choice, API exposure, and API consumability.