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'Weather API,' 'payments API' — APIs are everywhere.

As the doorway programs use to talk to each other, which restaurant analogy fits best?

The menu plus the waiter: taking orders to the kitchen and bringing back the dish ✓
The chef's secret recipe
The building's property deed

The menu plus the waiter: taking orders to the kitchen and bringing back the dish
An API is an agreed-upon interface: request like this, get answered like that. You don't need to know the kitchen — just order from the menu (the docs). Software ecosystems are networks of APIs.

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