API – what is it?

What is an API. Quite often I ask myself the same, and sadly – can’t give a definitive answer. Good thing the internet is a large place, and it’s full of information.

The following two videos are quite helpful in that regard:
The following video gives brief idea and introduction:

This one goes into a bit more detail about REST:

In future edition of the article I’ll get more details on basic API creation.