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What Is an API? A Complete Guide to Application Programming Interfaces

Last updated: May 2026 An API (Application Programming Interface) is a set of rules and definitions that lets one software system request data or services from another. APIs are the connective tissue of modern software — every time a mobile app shows live data, a website logs you in with Google, or a SaaS tool talks to your CRM, an API is doing the work in the background.

Why we built a dedicated SDK for realtime AI streaming

If you've built a conversational AI feature, you know the pattern. Client sends a message, backend calls a model, response streams back over HTTP. SSE mostly, or WebSockets if you need bidirectional. For a single user on a single device, it works well. The trouble is the best AI products right now have moved well past that.

Honeybadger Insights Parameterized Queries

Make your Honeybadger Insights system dashboards dynamic with parameterized widget queries. In this walkthrough, Ben shows how to take a dashboard built from data reported by the Honeybadger CLI agent — load average, memory used, disk used across a fleet of hosts — and filter the whole view down to a single host with one parameter. What you’ll see: One dashboard, many views — no duplicate widgets, just a shareable URL.

Q&A: Changing the game for creators: how Substack doubled mobile build speed with Bitrise

When Substack first launched in 2017, the company set out to give writers a better business model, built on subscriptions and direct relationships with readers. Since then, Substack has expanded into multi-format publishing across text, audio, and video, while building powerful tools for community and discovery, for creators, writers, and thinkers of all kinds.

Choosing the Right Data Protection Approach for Your Non-Prod Environments | Full Webinar

Dive into the pros and cons of data masking and synthetic data generation, with real-world examples and practical use cases. In this webinar, Perforce Delphix experts Ilker Taskaya and Hims Pawar show you how to select the right approach based on your specific needs, compliance requirements, and data accessibility challenges.

Create Without Limits with Perforce P4 Version Control

From semiconductor fabs to AAA game studios, Perforce P4 is the version control platform behind the world's most ambitious creative and engineering work. Global industry leaders, including NVIDIA, Samsung, DNEG, Nickelodeon, Sandfall Interactive, Warhorse, and BMW use Perforce P4 to collaborate without boundaries, protect critical IP, and build things the rest of the world relies on. P4 is the version control foundation for.

Choosing the right HPC Optimization Strategy and Key Challenges

The cost your CFO sees and the cost your CFO does not! This article is worth your time! Your CFO sees the invoice. Rack space. Cooling infrastructure. Software licenses. Network bandwidth. The quarterly HPC bill lands on the desk, gets reviewed against the budget, and moves on. But here is the question that rarely makes it into that review: How much of that infrastructure investment is actually working for you?