API
Category: Infrastructure“A-P-I”
A doorway that lets two pieces of software talk to each other.
Lesson #2: Working With AI: Prompts, Data & Guardrails →A restaurant server carrying orders between you and the kitchen.
An app showing live weather it pulled from a weather service.
Your scheduling software sending job details straight into your accounting software.
A store's website checking inventory in the warehouse system in real time.
APIs are how AI plugs into the tools you already use instead of living on an island.
An API is the doorway software uses to talk to other software.
Name two tools you use that don't talk to each other. Connecting them would be an API job.
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