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I mean, why the computer guy and in today's clients are going to be doing a brief introduction to application programming interfaces or AP eyes.

So AP eyes are ways that you can connect to vendors, products, service's or infrastructure in order to utilize them for your own code.

Now you probably think about AP.

Eyes with service is such as Twitter.

Twitter is a social media site s.

So let's say you have a WordPress blogging every time you create a new post, you went a tweet to be sent out over Twitter.

Well, you can use Twitter is a P I, and basically you can have your WordPress blawg connect to Twitter using that a p I.

And then whenever you create a post, the title for the Post lets a thumbnail for the post.

A little excerpt from the post will automatically be bundled together, and you're your WordPress.

Blogging would be able to use the AP, I to then be able to publish that as a tweet on Twitter s.

Oh, that's one of the ways that people think about using AP eyes.

So all an a p.

I is basically it is the way that you are able to programmatically be able to access and utilize service's from different vendors.

Now, when you think about AP eyes, you may be thinking about the old days of AP eyes, right?

So a lot of I t professionals, you know, network engineers insist admin is they don't really think about AP eyes a lot because they think of that is just a CZ like the developer world, right?

If you want your application to connect to Facebook, if you want your application to connect to Twitter, join your application to connect things like YouTube and all that kind of thing.

You know, people think OK, well, then you need to know AP eyes.

But I'm I'm a really you know, I have an I t person.

I don't I don't need to worry about AP eyes.

But one of the interesting things is as the world has moved on, is that a P eyes have become more and more important for old line system administrators and network administrators and that type of thing, because AP eyes have been created so that system administrators an old time I t can actually access service is that they would have had to spend up servers for in the past.

So that's where you hear about in the modern world of something called eso es or service oriented architecture.

And in his service oriented architecture, we're no longer worried about physical servers themselves or virtual servers themselves were thinking Maura about just the service night.

So in the old days back 20 years ago, if I needed an email service, right, I need to be able to send out e mails from my application or first from something else.

I would build a physical machine.

I would install an operating system under that physical machine, then installed the email server exchange or whatever else on that physical machine.

And then I, as a system administrator, was responsible for the hard drive and the operating system and the server software and any of the configurations.

Well, now again, it is now.

The future is now the future, and the idea of having to actually build a physical machine in order to get access to things such like suck his e mail service is seems a little bit ridiculous.

And so now, like with AP eyes, there's a company called Sending Grid that was purchased by another company called TWILIO.

So if you need e mail service is instead of actually building your own a physical email server or even spending up a virtual email server using an A P I, you can simply connect to send grids.

Email service is, and then your software or your your systems or whatever are able to send email out simply using their infrastructure so you don't have to worry about the physical machine.

You don't have to worry about the CPU fan family.

Don't worry about a hard drive fan failing.

You don't have to worry about doing updates or firewalls or any of that kind of thing.

You can simply have your software be able to connect to send A great service is and then basically your software is able to send out e mails using send grids, a p I to send e mails out so this could be very valuable for things like notification systems.

So let's say you have a backup system in your company, right?

You're you're backing up your servers.

If a backup fails for some reason, you want an email to be sent out.

Well, you can either build your own email server or have that notification connect to your secure email server that you already have.

What you know you want to be careful about.

You know it might be more valuable to have your email or your your backup system when it needs to email something out.

Simply connect to send grid service's so that when an email notification needs to be sent, it could just connect to send grid through the AP I and then the e mail will be sent out.

Or if you're looking at a company like Twilio twilio again, Purkiss send Grid twilio offers a lot of telephoning.

Messaging service is so again, let's say you want to send out SMS messages, right?

So basically text messages.

Do you really want to build a physical server and figure out how you're going to send out SMS messages that's going to be very time consuming is gonna be very expansive it's gonna be a pain in the butt.

Or you can simply connect to TWILIO as a P I on then your notification system.

Considerate connect, you know, send out.

Send out the message is based off the phone number of whatever else.

And, you know, within a day everything is up and running again.

You don't have to worry about firewalls.

You don't worry about CPU fans.

You don't have to worry about any of that type of thing.

Is that what we're starting to talk about?

What we're talking about?

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P I s a lot of people have the old idea, like a decade old idea of a P I, Zahra about twitter ap eyes about Facebook, that type of thing.

But AP eyes now really are about a lot of the old school service is that have simply been so commoditized, Just commoditized to a degree that now you're just connecting and you know, for $10 a month or something, you're ableto pay for 10,000 or 100,000 SMS messages going out.

That's the first thing to be thinking about.

If you're old school, I t the other thing to be thinking about is these AP Eyes are so useful when people are getting so used to coding Is that now there are a lot of AP eyes for actual equipment itself s only think about things like software to find out.

Working S d n A.

This is where we're able to manage our network infrastructure using code programming cle Well, in order to do that, there has to be an A p I.

There has to be a way toe have your code actually connect into your your physical network infrastructure.

So companies such a cisco six go actually has a P eyes for much of their physical equipment.

So if you want a quality of service, you know changes if you want routing changes If you need to have any cages done to your physical network infrastructure, you can actually connect with AP eyes and be able to change how right rat routing is done.

How different configurations air done so on so forth, simply using AP eyes.

And so this is one of things you need to be thinking about again.

How time is trained.

The old days of just thinking about AP, eyes with Facebook and Twitter and YouTube.

That's old school again.

Modern I t You're now looking at more of the service oriented architecture.

And so if your infrastructure needs SMS service is instead of building a physical box and trying to figure out how to make that work, you can't simply connect to an A P I to twilio again.

If you want to be able to man program inkling manage your Cisco equipment, you can connect your Cisco equipment using an A P I.

And then depending on the code he wrote on it, your code.

Make sure you're on it the hell out of that code if you're managing your network infrastructure.

But then programming Clea, um, you can actually manage your network infrastructure.

So this is why AP Eyes are very important now, not simply for old school developers and all that type of thing, but also for old school sys admin network people on that type of folks, I would argue at this point in time, learning AP eyes now is much like learning Lennox 10 or 15 years ago, right?

So again, back when I got my M.

C s C when I am, I am CSC all I had to know his windows.

I don't have to know, Mac.

I didn't have no Lennox sure result and have no units, right?

If all you knew was Windows 20 years ago, that was a okay.

As time went by as Lennox became more prominent as there were more and more service is that used Lennox.

Then it became more important than if you're going to be a system administrator.

You needed to be comfortable with Lennox against setting up Ah, file server.

Setting up any kind of Lennox server you need to be comfortable with 10 15 years ago.

I would argue the same is now true assistant system administrators.

With being able to use a P eyes, you need to be comfortable with it.

You need to have a basic understanding of how you connect these AP eyes for different service is and you should have a basic understanding of how how to be a code, at least a little bit of code.

In order to make these AP eyes function just like you had to learn Lennox before that would be my thought with Ap eyes today.

Now, when he started thinking about using AP eyes, there are a few things, a few considerations you're going to have to keep in mind.

The first consideration with AP Eyes is basically what programming language are you going to use in order to connect to the A P I A game?

It's an application programming interface, which means you're going to need a programming language.

Is that going to be PHP?

Is that going to be Ruby is not gonna be python.

Is that gonna be job?

Is it gonna be?

C Sharp isn't gonna be any of these programming languages.

And guess guess what?

The answer is.

When you say, Eli, what programming language do I need to know?

In order to use an AP, I I'm gonna give you a shocking answer.

Go do a Google search, pull up the service you want to use, pull up there the information for their AP eyes and see what programming languages that they allowed to connect to their service.

That's very important to understand with how these AP eyes work, that basically they create the AP eyes and then they days on the AP eyes to only work with certain programming like this.

Whether it's python, whether it's PHP, whether it's c sharp, whether his job or whatever else.

Basically, they're gonna create the FBI.

They're gonna say our FBI works with a B and C so you know, if you're going to use our a p I you have to use that programming language.

I would argue.

I think this is one of the reasons why python became so popular If you go back five or six or seven years ago because when a lot of these AP eyes were being debuted for people to use, the fact of the matter is back then many times the only a p I language that was available was python.

They will come out with the a P i again again you go back 567 years ago, a lot of these AP eyes were brand new again.

Coming up with things takes time, money, energy, so on and so forth.

So they gotta prioritize.

His companies have to prioritize for what language?

They want a target.

And for a lot of these companies, they simply targeted python from day one.

And so, if you want to use an A p I, you had to use python.

I would argue that is when the value of PHP really started falling off a cliff.

Not the quality of whether PHP is good.

Not in that type of stuff.

The fact that matter, waas For 10 years, PHP gave you access to most of the things that you needed.

When you're creating Web applications, get go back six or seven years ago.

All these brand new A.

P.

I has come out really cool, right?

If you want to connect your website or water or Facebook or Twitter or anything else, you know, in order to do that, you have to know Python.

All of a sudden, everybody learns python.

Why, If you want the AP, I you gotta lose part.

So the imported thing, Whatever service that you want to use with a P, I basically just go take a look at what languages they support and then pick the language that works best for you.

So it is very important, and this is one of the things you ought to be thinking about.

There's a lot of vendors out there for any kind of service.

Email service is as a mess.

Service is stored.

Service is any kind of service that would be provided with a service oriented architecture.

There's probably 10 different vendors out there that offer a solution.

So something that that one of the things you maybe have to think about is what languages do you know, Right?

I know PHP and I've got a script.

I know Python or something like that.

You go.

You take a look at these different vendors.

Some vendors will support the languages.

You know, some vendors may not support languages, you know.

And so one of the ways that you literally pick what then you're gonna go with is what language you already know past that.

One of things you also have to look at with these AP eyes is what is the cost for use in the A P I.

Now the cool thing is again, This has been commoditized to such a degree.

Something like 10,000 email or 20,000 emails now is actually I think it's a free service.

If you send out 10,000 emails a month from sending grid, I recall right now is actually so commoditized that's free if you send out, like 100,000 or hundreds of thousands of emails that might cost you $10 a month.

But one of things you're going to have to look at is what is the cost for using the AP?

I again if you have a website like you, like a computer guy dot com, So have a website called you on the computer i dot com You can sign up for membership.

I use an A P I in order to send out the emails again.

Why?

Why build my own email server?

So on a site like that, frankly, you know, it sends out thousands of e mails a month, so I know what my cost for a website like you on the computer dot com is something that you may be thinking about you may have to think about, though, is if you're going to be doing a website or some kind of service that sends out a lot of email.

So again, let's say some kind of news blast service.

You're gonna be creating a startup company, so somebody start up companies.