Further reading

• You can find a definition of API from Red Hat at https://www.redhat.com/en/topics/api/what-are-application-programming-interfaces
• You can find a definition of API from AWS at https://aws.amazon.com/what-is/api/
• See a scientific article comparing TCP/IP and OSI-RM models at https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/46812
• The Preparation of Programs for an Electronic Digital Computer: https://archive.org/details/programsforelect00wilk/mode/2up
• You’ll find a scientific article comparing APIs at https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/800297.811532
• Read up on a brief history of e-commerce at https://web.archive.org/web/20160326123900/http://gsbrown.org/compuserve/electronic-mall-1984-04/
• DSs thesis Architectural Styles and the Design of Network-based Software Architectures: https://www.ics.uci.edu/~fielding/pubs/dissertation/top.htm
• This infographic shows data generation during one minute on the internet, comparing 2013 and 2014: https://www.fourthsource.com/general/internet-minute-2013-vs-2014-infographic-18293
• OWASP Top Ten Project: https://owasp.org/www-project-top-ten/
• gRPC Official Documentation: https://grpc.io/docs/
• See the official JSON-RPC documentation at https://www.jsonrpc.org/specification
• You can learn more about the OWASP Topen Ten API Project at https://owasp.org/www-project-api-security/