SUNY Old Westbury Computer Science Discussion

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Computer Science

Suny Old Westbury

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Prompt:

In the blog post, API vs Web Service: What’s the Difference?, the authors state that “All web services are APIs, but not all APIs are web services.”

Assignment:

  • Create an explanation for this statement that you could share with someone new to the information technology field.
  • Make sure you include information that describes what web services and APIs are, and also clearly explains why “All web services are APIs, but not all APIs are web services.”

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More than often, people mistake APIs and Web services to be one and the same thing.
However, APIs and Web services, as much as they have some overlap, are different concepts.
To better understand why the a...


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