With changes in the economic climate and fundamental shifts in supporting remote workers and customers, how businesses operate and manage their IT has been completely upended. But with a faster, smarter network, these continuity challenges can actually become unique opportunities for change, growth, and new ways of working.
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The role of IT can feel thankless, whether you’re a team of one, wear a multitude of different hats, or are expected to have an answer for any number of issues, but that doesn’t have to be the case. Start making IT the heroes of the office by building a network strategy that delivers results, growth, and ongoing success.
Organizations that strive to deliver secure digital experiences will achieve competitive advantage by safely unleashing application innovation that delights customers. However, changing dynamics in the way applications are designed and deployed have expanded the threat surface and have necessitated a paradigm shift in the way security is delivered.
Application Programming Interfaces, or APIs, were developed to streamline the way digital ecosystems communicate and interact with each other. At their core, APIs abstract the complexity of connecting multiple disparate systems. This allows developers to integrate third-party content or services quickly and easily into their applications, automate mundane tasks, and increase convenience for online shopping, one-stop travel planning, and other digital miracles.
APIs are a contract between the service provider and service consumer. When any application uses an API, it needs to conform to an agreed-upon standard, with implicitly set expectations. What happens behind the scenes is of no concern to the consumer, enabling the service provider to use whatever means necessary to deliver the value. The service provider may choose any technology to deliver the service, and it may or may not optimize the resource being utilized to deliver the service.