The ingenious thing about APIs is that many of them are just tiny snippets of code, and all are designed to be small and unobtrusive in terms of their network resource requirements. Yet they are also flexible and able to keep working and performing their main functions even if the program they are interfacing with or controlling changes, such as when patches are applied. As amazing as APIs are, they also have their faults. Because they can be designed to do almost anything, from single functions repeated over and over to smartly controlling the advanced aspects of various programs or platforms, almost no standards govern their creation. Most APIs are unique, and many organizations simply create new APIs as needed
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