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Can we please, pretty please with a cherry on top invent a new word for "public-facing official API that exposes some of a company's core services"?

Because I get annoyed every time someone uses "APIs" to make general statements while assuming that specific narrow meaning.




I think that ship has sailed.


I always liked the term 'Business Objects' - but that has always been co-opted by a company (SAP).

So hard to invent catchy new terms... Trying here but they all sound like business buzzwords...

Business Proxy, Business Delegate, Business Front, Business Agent, Company Blackbox, Business Interface, Company Platform, Company Rube Goldberg, Company Socket, Partner Interface?


Okay, how about SPI, Service Programming Interface?


I'd be happy with that. Now to get people to use it...




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