The Haunted House of APIs - The Haunted Web of APIs with Richard Bird

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The reason for that historically is that the goal was to find ways to get applications, particularly in the cloud, to communicate with each other without having to build all of these really heavy integration points that we used to do back in the old data center and application days. And so as soon as folks realized how they could use those APIs, they started doing it like crazy, right?