API Security : Lack of Resources & Rate Limiting
What is Application Programming Interface/API?
API is an intermediary connection between two or more applications so they can communicate with each other. Therefore, it takes your request to the destination and then carries the response back to the user/application.
They can provide a base to the developers, from where developers can start and enhance their functionality faster. API has a standard way to process data, device or whether accessing the data from cloud applications like salesforce or shopping from your mobile phone. So you can easily use the infrastructure and from that you can connect a lot of applications such as android, iOS or the web applications.
Example: We are in a shop and the shop owner cannot move and leave the front seat due to robbing. Therefore, shop owners need someone who can show the stuff to the customer and then the customer makes the payment at the front gate, that communication and servant or any third party can fulfill the link. That servant attends the end user, shows him stuff and then drops him near the main payment window. Servant is like an API who connects to the customer…
