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Ruben Verborgh

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Ruben Verborgh is a professor of data & AI. Read all about his mission on his homepage.

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The lie of the API

Really, nobody takes your website serious anymore if you don’t offer an API . And that’s what everybody did: they got themselves a nice API . An enormous amount of money and energy is wasted on developing API s that are hard to create and even harder to use. This is wonderful news for developers, who get paid to build…