Waiters to AI: API Revolution

Описание: This video presentation provides a comprehensive overview of Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), defining them through the analogy of a "digital waiter" that facilitates communication between services. The presentation emphasizes that messy, fragmented API environments result in significant business chaos and financial waste, costing companies millions annually due to inefficiency and heightened security risks. To combat this, the source introduces the discipline of API management, detailing key components like the API gateway and developer portal, and presents Gartner's API strategy maturity model as a roadmap for optimizing systems. Finally, the source highlights the urgent need to evolve APIs for their newest customers: AI agents, predicting that machines will account for half of all API usage by 2028 and requiring perfectly structured, standardized, and machine-readable systems.