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Riding and thriving on the API hype cycle

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Guidelines for the enterprise.

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cover image Communications of the ACM
Communications of the ACM  Volume 59, Issue 3
March 2016
109 pages
ISSN:0001-0782
EISSN:1557-7317
DOI:10.1145/2897191
  • Editor:
  • Moshe Y. Vardi
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