Technology has permeated into every aspect of everyday life. APIs are more prevalent in our daily lives than most of us realize and they make life easier for programmers and developers, and for you too. To prove it, we pinpoint 6 things that have an API running under the hood an you never imagined concealed one or several APIs. 

Along with Ferrovial and Amadeus, it will present the South Summit 2018 Hackathon, in which more than 100 participants are expected to complete one of the three challenges proposed by the partners on October 2 and 3. There are 6,000 euros in prize money and registration is open until September 28.

Using an optimal credential or authentication system is vital to ensure the security of an application programming interface. OAuth 2.0 has become the basic security protocol for mobile APIs development and for providing credentials to launch native applications. The basic HTTP access authentication method does not guarantee the same level of security.

Every day more companies and developers are joining the trend for working with open solutions. The reason is simple and the advantages of open source are clear: it reduces the expenses associated to licenses, eliminates dependence on software sellers, and offers advantages for learning thanks to collaboration, increased security and improved quality.

Amazon, Salesforce and IBM are waging a battle for the control of cloud-based services, primarily the creation, deployment and control of scalable infrastructure for third-party cloud-based applications. Here are some of their most interesting APIs. 

One of the greatest recent technology revolutions is the management of data in the cloud, both for processing large volumes of information and for managing services for end users. Almost no company in the world conceives of cloud-based services without APIs. Below are four articles where you can find out more about APIs and cloud computing.

The profile of programmer is one of the most sought after on the labor market, and fortunately, the democratization of the Internet has vastly improved the options for learning how to program easily and interactively. This article brings you a selection of platforms suitable for different levels to teach you how programming languages work, how to understand the mechanism behind an API and how to develop apps for iOS or Android.

Slack, the communication platform for companies, integrates different services into a single messaging application, all thanks to its API. Any developer can use it to create a bot that responds to the user’s requests by means of a chat. It already has an army of these small programs and the family continues to grow.

Although practice is the best school, another aid for developing APIs is the Internet, which offers all kinds of information for those interested in the more technical aspects of this world. Here's a small selection of the most interesting websites to learn and keep up to date in the world of APIs.  

Diego Blanco is Head of PaaS & Open APIs Platform CTO at BBVA Compass. We talk to him and he recalls the steps needed to create an API catalog from his experience at BBVA. At the same time Blanco reviews the methodology of work of his team, based in the United States.