The Exadel Blog

How APIs Are Exposing Value and Changing the Nature of the Internet

In 2012, the client-​​server par­a­digm, which has dom­i­nated ap­pli­ca­tion ar­chi­tec­ture — and the modern Web ar­chi­tec­ture which is its most modern in­car­na­tion — over the past twenty years, is giving ground to a more broadly dis­trib­uted client-​​cloud ap­proach. As this shift hap­pens, it promises to un­lock value in pre­vi­ously under-​​utilized en­ter­prise data and media con­tent. The cat­a­lyst for this change is to be found in the ex­plo­sion of ap­pli­ca­tion pro­gram­ming in­ter­faces, or APIs, which ex­pose re­sources within and be­yond the cor­po­rate fire­wall and re­de­fine the on­line economy. Read more »

Tags: API economy, APIs, citizen developer, client server, client-cloud, public APIs, white paper

Exadel re­cently re­leased a new white paper: The Client-​​Cloud Paradigm and the API Economy. In this paper, we talk about the shift from the client-​​server model with its more fixed con­nec­tions to a client-​​cloud model in which the dis­trib­uted na­ture of com­puting makes a quantum leap. We also dis­cuss the re­la­tion­ship of this major shift to the ex­plo­sion in API-​​defined ser­vices and the rise of the “cit­izen developer.”

Read it now! (It’s a 4-​​page PDF.)

Tags: API economy, APIs, citizen developer, client server, client-cloud, public APIs, white paper