In this day and age of continuous delivery and integration, the focus is continuously moving away from software interface and on to APIs. One of the prime objectives of DevOps is to achieve end to end automation of delivery. For this, the various kinds of softwares which are used in the process of delivery, need to exchange data. This is where APIs come in handy. Using APIs, there is no manual intervention needed, and all the data can be exchanged easily.

APIs, more specifically REST APIs, return data when queried. The earlier format of choice used to be XML, then it turned over to XAML but now the focus is on JSON due to its easiness. Read More »