Source:-https://gigaom.com Application programming interfaces, or APIs, are now a ubiquitous method and de facto standard of communication among modern information technologies. The information ecosystems within large companies and complex organizations comprise a vast array of applications and systems, many of which have turned to APIs to exchange data as the glue to hold these heterogeneous artifacts together. APIs have begun to replace older, more cumbersome methods of information sharing with lightweight, loosely-coupled microservices. This gives organizations the ability to knit