Netflix Engineer Daniel Jacobson: The API at the Root of Your Business
Jan-28 2012 / 23:21 EST

Netflix Engineer Daniel Jacobson: The API at the Root of Your Business via @zite:

The first place I had ever seen an API actually at work was as part of an operating system. It was a strange OS at that, a permutation of CP/M that used a graphical front end called GEM, which would later be ported to the Atari ST. The definition was explained to me like this: An "interface," as everyone knows, is a specification for how electrical components interconnect. Well, now it's possible for an application program - the part that does what users need - to interconnect with the opera...