Australian energy company Jemena has been using APIs, in some form, for about a decade. Its use of APIs — application programming interfaces — has jumped recently and is expected to increase fivefold over the next couple of years. “We’re quite early in our journey,” says David Gordon, the company’s cybersecurity architecture lead. “Now everything is API first, versus maybe an afterthought.”
Jemena is using APIs to share information with business partners and in customer-facing applications, Gordon says. “Even market operators and regulators are moving toward APIs. There’s been a clear acceleration in the last year — the API-ification of everything.”
