I was paid by ViaSocket to write this article for Medium.
The Application Programming Interfaces(APIs) which are at the heart of inter-system automation, rely on protocols. By using web services that assist in the documentation of APIs, programmers are able to generate code snippets that make using their APIs easier, and more stable.
I’ve written an article on Medium about this and a particular web service that took it a step further by collecting the APIs into a marketplace which can be used for building complex and powerful automation projects.