Instead, developers typically use an HTTP API and JSON to provide the data for apps on the web. That’s why you’ll often hear a so-called REST architecture described as RESTful —as in ...

An API gateway’s role in the architecture also makes it ideally positioned for some kinds of monitoring, alerting, and tracing. Similarly, gathering statistics at the gateway is useful for broad ...

Google's diagram of the Web Integrity API. Credit: Google Google likes to describe its APIs in a generic sense, but in reality, most of the actors in this play would probably be Google.