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API Stakeholders

Explore the roles of API stakeholders including producers who design and maintain APIs, and consumers who use them. Understand the different types of API users such as internal developers, external developers, business users, and end users, and how APIs facilitate communication and data sharing across systems to support business processes and innovation.

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Who builds APIs?

The entity that creates an API and makes it available for others to use is known as an API producer. The API producer is responsible for designing, building, and maintaining the API.

API consumer refers to the entity that uses or consumes the API provided by the API producer. The API consumer can be a developer, an organization, or another system that accesses the API to retrieve or update data or perform other operations. API consumers use the API created by API producers. We'll learn more about the different life ...