I have been thinking now for quite a long time of what could be a great, clear, illustrative and simple to understand analogy to describe what are APIs, and open APIs in particular….
And I think that the best analogy/comparison used to explain open APIs has been made the BBYOpen team. Check out this video that is really well done.
“What is Open? A simple description of APIs.”
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