Open APIs are exploding in numbers. Recently RWW published an article discussing the services that are already processing billions of APIs a day. The statistics is simply mind boggling. The top service providers are Google and Facebook. This should not be surprising. What is surprising is that they are getting 5 billion API calls a day ! That is right.. 5 billion calls a day !! Way to go !!!
Another interesting aspect is that for some of the services like Twitter or Salesforce more than half of the requests are submitted via APIs. That tells a lot around the usage model for these services.
For the pure techies.. if you are still wondering how much of this is SOAP vs REST, it turns out REST is popular 4:1 margin. This is hardly a race.
The days of whether we need APIs are gone. The picture below summarizes it the best.
Just like there is an app for that, it would be fair that there is an API for that!
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