Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) and data go hand-in-hand. If a developer wants an application to tap into a particular database, using an API would be the ideal way to accomplish this.
Daily API RoundUp: Google Cloud Private Catalog, DocuSign, bookitLive, CrowdfundHQ
Every day, the ProgrammableWeb team is busy, updating its three primary directories for APIs, clients (language-specific libraries or SDKs for consuming or providing APIs), and source code samples.