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Programmable Web: When SDKs Are Better Than APIs 2013-10-04 4:46pm -07:00T Visit Programmable Web Outtake: Scott Morrison is Chief Technology Officer at Layer 7. You can follow him on Twitter as well as on his blog. In a good article published yesterday on ProgrammableWeb, David Berlind shed light on an interesting emerging trend. Developers working with the wildly popular Evernote platform, wrote Berlind, seem to greatly favour SDKs over APIs. Could it be that APIs, our tech-du-jour for several years now, has already passed its best before date?  Quelle Horreur! You can guess what is coming next. I genuinely hope to be on vacation—ideally lying on a nice beach somewhere—the week some analyst declares that APIs are dead. Such rumors are always greatly exaggerated, serving more as a tired analyst device than genuine insight. But Berlind’s article highlights an important development shift that has been underway for some time. APIs, as with so many successful development styles or protocols, are settling into the fabric of the Internet. We are entering an era where we don’t need to promote APIs; they are simply assumed to be there. But even as APIs pass quietly into the technology canon, something needs to take its place as... Read More on Programmable Web...   © Copyright 2013 Programmable Web. All rights reserved. If you've enjoyed this content, please visit Programmable Web to show your appreciation. Information for Bloggers

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