APIs are often viewed as a panacea of opportunity—a must-do for innovation and competition. But this is only half of the story. While in most cases there are legitimate opportunities to be realized, ...

Application programming interfaces (APIs) are no longer a niche technical concern; they are fundamental building blocks of modern business. From streamlining business processes and enabling external ...

A new evaluation of popular parallel programming languages finds that the C++ library provides the best combination of usability and performance Multicore programming is a tricky problem. Developers ...