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API == server?

gyi2521 on November 08, 2018

Recently, I ran into a YouTube video explaining API. The video used 'API is like a server in a restaurant' as an analogy, so I wanted to share that...
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Visakh Vijayan

Cool and fun

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tux0r

I was once an API

How could anyone access you? Was there an open port?

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gyi2521

Ha Ha, anyone came to the restaurant i worked at had an access... ;-)

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tux0r

Sounds suspicious, but not quite uninteresting. ;-p