Understanding the Role of Web API Services

Web API services nowadays are built in for most applications, including web portals, desktop applications, and mobile applications. Moreover, containerized applications and microservices use web APIs for communication. Let’s find out why web API technology now is in high demand. A web API is a well-known and widely used technology used to transfer data through communication channels on the internet. Web API interfaces are usually implemented on servers as a group of endpoints and used for connections from a variety of clients. Endpoints support a Representational State Transfer (REST) interface, allowing the manipulation of data objects by using HTTP verbs (GET, POST, PUT, PATCH, and DELETE). The data formats engaged in communication are commonly represented in JSON or XML format. Furthermore, the Open Data Protocol (OData) can be used to filter and summarize data chunks exposed by RESTful interfaces. Also, OData provides a bunch of...