Flash back to just over a decade ago when the fieldbus wars raged between vendors, inflicting casualties on early adopters and leaving automation engineers unsure of where to make their technology ...

APIs seem to be everywhere these days. Every popular online service has one. APIs allow developers to interact with online services without actually having to point and click their way through a UI.

Developers use application programming interfaces to hide complexity, organize code, design reusable components, and connect different systems, applications, or services. The term API stands for ...