Enterprises today use an API first approach towards application development and sharing data. This API based approach is used under several scenarios like — breaking up a monolith into micro-services, adopting cloud and adopting Kubernetes.

APIs are also a popular choice to adopt Service Oriented Architectural approach. API also form a key tenant to support data sharing and logic reuse. An API in an application can be compared to a function in the imperative programming paradigm.

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