API is a term common in professional settings and discussions about software development, but what does it mean and how do they work?

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

API gateways are a response to a key outcome of the microservices architecture style: the proliferation of services and their interfaces. The core purpose of an API gateway is to simplify and ...

It also means researchers who leverage Twitter's API to collect public data from the site will lose a key resource -- again, unless they pay, CNN reported.

Twitter is emailing developers stating that their API keys, access tokens, and access token secrets may have been exposed in a browser's cache.

Incorrect server settings on the Twitter Developer portal led to browsers caching API keys, account access token and secret.