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# APIs: Understanding the API Economy

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Description: If you’re even marginally around the tech world, you’ve probably heard of APIs\. APIs are an integral part of pretty much everything you do online, whether it’s on a computer or in an app\. So, it’s natural that you want to know more about them\.

## Summary
If you’re even marginally around the tech world, you’ve probably heard of APIs\. APIs are an integral part of pretty much everything you do online, whether it’s on a computer or in an app\. So, it’s natural that you want to know more about them\.

## Page sections

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## Key facts
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- APIs have grown exponentially over the last 10 years, from a virtually known technology a decade ago, to the core base of pretty much everything we do online and in places you’ve probably not even realized\.
- We’re going to cover some of the sectors using APIs and how they’re using them\.
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## Primary entities
- APIContext
- Understanding the API Economy
- API knowledge base
- API monitoring

## Primary links
- [Human knowledge base view](/api-knowledge-base/apis)